Stephan:   The saga of the F-35 continues. Nearly a $1,000,000,000,000 (that's a million millions) has been spent on this fighter originally designed for a kind of air combat that really no longer exists, and even on those terms it is a failure. The money spent on this grotesque combo of fraud, greed, and incompetence, would have paid for every college student in the United States over the last decade to go through college and graduate school getting a PhD, all at no cost to them.  But this ill-conceived aircraft has been a success in one way: For the corporations involved it has proven to be one of the most profitable boondoggles in the history of the world.