Normally, I subscribe to the ancient saying de Republicanus nil nisi bonum from the days of Ronaldus Magnus, but this guy makes my skin crawl. I's like finding out you support similar politicians to Jeffrey Dahmer or something, except this guy doesn't want to just kill people, he wants to kill whole industries in the service of his bosses. Now, it would seem like the aerospace content of this line of blog posts is rather thin, and it is, except that intellectual property law is a vital matter to the small, entrepreneurial shops that are driving technological advancement today.

Any of the big aerospace primes could have won the X-Prize in their sleep. They didn't do it because they're addicted to the crack of cost-plus contracting, and they have no idea how to compete any more, except hiring the Prendergasts, soulless money worshippers from K and L Streets, and bribing people. (You don't think Linda Daschle got $9 million from the aerospace bigs because she was unusually gifted? Her gift was her proximity to the former minority leader; it was a borderline legal way of funneling him money).

If you want everything in the world to work like one of Boeing's scandal-ridden defense contracts, just sign up with Prendergast and DCI's various robber-baron clients.