■"Rocket Fails To Launch In Test Run: Third Straight Error For Missile Defense," by David Stout, New York Times, 15 February 2005, p. A11.

Yet another nifty failure of this close-to-$100-billion-boondoggle.

Where is our Tang!

And the real threat we face? $50 billion more over the next seven years.

Problem is, until we get better on SysAdmin, that price seems small to the one we pay for bad nation-building in Iraq.

But what would you rather do? Export security or import insecurity?