Research Triangle put Carolina on the map, so it would be tough for John Edwards (a law alumnus of Chapel Hill) NOT to appreciate the value of technology. Sure, neighboring Duke has a prominent NASA pundit in (I think his name is) historian Alex Rowland. However, Alex isn't the first former NASA employee to be highly skeptical of that bureaucratic agency. I don't know that he'd be against NASA's simply funding competitive prizes though.

What's encouraging is that research triangle is somewhat OUTSIDE of the NASA center paradigm. The closest center is NASA Langley, and it's not in the same state. Maybe John Edwards would be far more open-minded to pro-entrepreneurial reforms which could empower Research Triangle and other NON NASA sycophants to achieve in space what NASA hasn't and won't?

On a different note, folks, love him or hate him Rush Limbaugh knows a thing or two about politics (and football). As a preface, Rush calls Edwards "the Breck Girl" for being such a "pretty boy". That's probably not a bad trait to have now in the t.v. age, as Kennedy discovered against Nixon. Much more interestingly, though, Rush says that Kerry won't make it outside of the NorthEast, and that Edwards will be the chosen candidate. Rush also said Edwards can win against Bush, and mentioned that when the Democrats DO win the presidency it's with a Southerner. I guess Kennedy's the last exception. Anyhow, Rush theorizes that Edwards might ask fellow senator Hillary Clinton to run with him, and she might accept because if they lose, her slate's clean for '08 as her dirty laundry will have already been publicly aired.