Trofim Lysenko would have been proud

If we’d have used an NCLB-style approach to the Apollo moon mission, President Kennedy would have simply ordered NASA to fly conventional airplanes higher and higher until they fell out of the sky, and then blamed the pilots for lacking the will and the know-how to get the job done.

Doug Noon, Borderland

I was going to wrap this between slices of homemade bread--but I cannot do it justice.

Go read the rest at Borderland.