Pat over at Bob Morris’ place posts on the Space Shuttle Discovery arrival at its new home at the Smithsonian:

Sometime I would like to know who, in NASA or the Smithsonian system, decided on this ceremonial flyby to remind Americans of what we had achieved. I would say: Thanks! “Just awesome.”

To which I can only respond “Sometime I would like to know who, in NASA or the Smithsonian system, decided on this ceremonial flyby to remind Americans of what we had achieved” … and to which we now have so spectacularly failed.

I would say: Thanks! “Just awesome.”