Does Energia really have the Right Stuff?

I don't know what to believe anymore. One day the Russian space agency can't pay its electric bill and the next day they are building Clippers and processing Helium3 on the Moon. (If you don't know what Helium 3 is, go here, if you don't know what a Clipper is, go here.)
I'd like to think it's all real and they will truly lead us off this planet; the first step in the long march to the Stars. But they're probably hoping some dot-com billionaire with money to burn and a Star Wars fixation will ride to their rescue, just like everyone else in the Space Industry.

Man, I have to shake this funk. I'm starting to sound like a pessimist. No, no, a REAL pessimist.

There is this latest update on the very successful Cassini probe currently gathering reams of data on Titan, a geologically active moon of Titan. The Huygens probe brought us some amazing photos and even wind sounds from its descent to the surface.
Titan is believed to be awash in hydrocarbons. Theories abound concerning possible seas of liquid methane or ethane, but so far, nothing of that sort. With an organically rich atmosphere, global tectonics at work and possible volcanism, it's still a hellish landscape brimming with possibilities!
Now, I'm smiling...