Llove Letters

The budget for 2014 that President Obama will propose next Wednesday bears all the hallmarks of a man who no longer has to worry about winning an election. There’s something in there to (expletive deleted) off everyone — except people who love science! Space science. You see, while the budget calls for tax increases and benefit cuts that should reduce the deficit by $1.8 trillion over the next 10 years, it also gives $100 million to NASA for what SPACE.com describes as: An audacious program to drag an asteroid into orbit around the moon for research and exploration purposes. That’s right — we’re going to lasso an asteroid. And that’s…