Project GLOWWORM
Warning: The following hyperlink might cause certain individuals of a sensitive nature some discomfort, as it details five chaps' moustaches: pride-link.

The Stars My Destination
Second time's the charm for SpaceX's latest Falcon rocket & Dragon capsule: launch-link. I genuinely wish I didn't have to be such a sourpuss, but I cannot let falsehoods & obfuscations pass unchallenged: N.A.S.A. honcho Charles Bolden is quoted as saying, "It's a great day for America… There are people who thought we'd gone away, and today says we've not gone away at all." With respect, Administrator Bolden, America didn't do this, the privately-held company SpaceX did this. Would it make sense to say that "America" made The Avengers or "America" invented the FaceSpace? Of course not. In the same vein, it is embarrassing for as accomplished a man as General Bolden to try to take credit for the accomplishments of others, to credit the accomplishments of every or any American to "America," as if the individual & the corporation did not exist, only the collective.

When N.A.S.A.'s Orion spacecraft & S.L.S. rocket sunder the veil of the heavens & carry astronauts into orbit & beyond, then "America" will have "not gone away," Administrator Bolden, & not before then.

The Rebel Black Dot Song of the Day
MxPx, "The Broken Bones" from Ten Years and Running (T.L.A.M.)