China Twofor

First Christopher Hitchens publishes a scathing critique of China's involvement with human rights-squashing despotic regimes and calls for a boycott of the Beijing Olympics (read it here), and now NASA administrator Michael Griffin says the Chinese will land a person on the moon before we get around to doing it again. What gives? Maybe Griffin is just trying to drum up some base-level nationalistic support from a water-brained congress, but at least somebody's doing it. I'm all for starting another space race as long as it takes Chinese attention and money away from supporting genocide in Darfur and slaughter in Burma.