Slow

It continues to be a slow sort of week, at least as far as the Crisis goes. One of the big stories was that Kevin Smith had shaved his face.  He does look better, evidently due to cutting processed sugar from his diet.

As others have noted, when this is the big news for the week, clearly ebola isn't the existential threat it used to be. Or maybe we just need a break, sometimes.

There were a pair of high-profile rocket failures this week. Orbital Sciences lost an Antares rocket, which exploded soon after launch. (It evidently uses engines from the Soviet Union's late-60's attempt to reach the moon.) Today, Space Ship Two, Virgin Galactic's suborbital craft, had problems on launch from its mothership and crashed. 

Which is unfortunate, and these might be significant in their own way, but they aren't quite Crisis material.