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Strange Visitors From Another Planet 5 Aug 2013 | 06:17 pm
Of course you understand that when high-tech civilizations meet low-tech civilizations, low-tech always loses badly, even when high-tech isn’t deliberately trying to exterminate low-tech. So when the...
If You Don't Play, You Can't Lose 2 Dec 2012 | 09:25 pm
Heard the Powerball math on the radio the other day; it was a conservative talk radio station, so it goes without saying that all the math that follows here is racist and homophobic. So you pay two d...
What Do You Do With A Great River? 12 Oct 2012 | 06:03 am
Cunegonde and I recently got back from a Mediterranean cruise that included stops in Egypt and Israel. Our two Egyptian tour guides - one each in Alexandria and Cairo - mentioned that their cities ar...
The End of America's Manned Space Program 18 Apr 2012 | 07:30 am
A few of the photos I got from Daingerfield Marina, just south of Washington Reagan National Airport. Fifty years ago, President Kennedy promised we would send a man to the moon and return him safely...
Obamacare Through the Looking-Glass 28 Mar 2012 | 03:49 am
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 “There's glory for you!” “I don't know what you mean by ‘glory’,” Alice said. Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. ...
Snarky Enough for Mount Rushmore? 23 Mar 2012 | 07:47 am
I've been reading Doris Kearns Goodwin's Team of Rivals: the Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. Particularly notable is Goodwin's repeated observation that Lincoln was quick to take the blame whene...
Pay No Attention to Everything I've Said and Done - I Want Lower Gas Prices! 9 Mar 2012 | 12:49 pm
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Behold, the narrative has changed. Four years ago, gas prices were too high because Bush and his Republican henchmen ...
The Kennedy Space Center, Freedom and Islam, Kennedy and Reagan and Obama 26 Feb 2012 | 05:34 pm
A few years ago, Cunegonde and I visited the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. While walking the length of a Saturn-V rocket like the ones that put a man on the moon... <img alt="" src="data:image/p.....
Mitt Romney's Taxes - And Yours 25 Jan 2012 | 06:46 am
So all the communists are piling on Mitt Romney because his effective tax rate is only about 15%. Romney can end the discussion and condemnation with a simple statement:: "My effective tax rate last...
Head Down to the Welfare Office to Apply for Your Social Security 10 Jan 2012 | 12:23 pm
Your government hasn't made any official announcement yet, but you can now start calling Social Security “welfare.” It happened at the end of 2011, when Congress failed to return the Social Security ...
