I’ll start out by saying that I think the five people in the submersible are dead, and that even days ago I thought they probably had been dead from the moment the vehicle stopped communicating with the mother ship about … Continue reading →
Let’s get far away from politics, if only for a moment. Far, far, far away. For the second time, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has looked for and failed to find a thick atmosphere on an exoplanet in one … Continue reading →
[NOTE: This a slightly edited version of a previous post of mine.] Father’s Day. A sort of poor stepchild to Mother’s Day, although fathers themselves are hardly that. They are central to a family. Just ask the people who never … Continue reading →
This is a huge topic and I will barely scratch the surface here. But it’s something that’s long fascinated and somewhat puzzled me. I’ll set the scene with a quote from commenter “Brian E.”: At some point, as we move … Continue reading →
I wonder. There’s this supposed incident (hat tip: commenter “Snow on Pine”); the original story as reported went this way: Hamilton described a scenario at a summit hosted by the United Kingdom-based Royal Aeronautical Society in which Air Force researchers … Continue reading →
Exhibit A – the Walgreens of the future: Walgreens, which has closed about 750 stores in the last few years, just debuted a theft-resistant format in a redesigned store in downtown Chicago. As CWBChicago reports, it has a lot more … Continue reading →
[NOTE: Both are more threatened in this country now than ever before in my lifetime, due to a frontal assault from the left which controls the media and educational system as well as the federal government. The following is a … Continue reading →
We pay a lot of attention to what’s happening on earth, and rightly so. But this mysterious far-off explosion is certainly of interest: According to a new study published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society there is … Continue reading →
Vermont has long billed itself as the Green Mountain State. Is it now going to be known as the Green Pastures State?: Vermont removed its residency requirement for assisted suicide on Tuesday, officially opening the door for any American to … Continue reading →
No, I’m not planning to close down this blog. But most of you know I’ve been dealing with Gerard’s death, plus managing open threads on his old blog so that the commenters can continue to go there and chat with … Continue reading →
I found that the following statement – embedded in an article by Walter Russell Mead, that focuses on a different issue – encapsulates the attitude of so many of the Democrat voters I know. Here it is: We live in … Continue reading →
I was about twelve years old when I first read Orwell’s masterpiece Nineteen Eighty-Four. It scared me more than anything I’d ever read. Did I understand every single bit of it? No, but I understood a surprising amount. And it … Continue reading →