I recently read the book “The Mists of Avalon” by Marion Zimmer Bradley. I didn’t just read it, but I read the entire series in chronological order including all the other books written by Diane Paxton. She did a good job of filling in backhistory and such, but I’m not entirely sure she took it [...]
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not “Eureka!”, but “That’s funny…” – Isaac Asimov
An Open Letter to President Obama on the Occasion of 9/11 Faye Parrish Dear President Obama, I read of your administrations plan to re-define September 11th as a National Service Day. Sir, it’s time we had a talk. During your campaign, Americans watched as you made mockery of our tradition of standing and crossing your [...]
You’ve got to read this: The government will lie and cheat you worse than any corporation because they are above their own law.
Reprinted without permission: I’ll be 63 soon. Except for one semester in college when jobs were scarce, and a six-month period when I was between jobs, but job-hunting every day, I’ve worked, hard, since I was 18. Despite some health challenges, I still put in 50-hour weeks, and haven’t called in sick in seven or [...]
It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge. – Voltaire
1. Don’t have sex before marriage because of all the reasons everybody tells you. They’re all true, and the ones that are lies are good lies, so believe them anyway. Don’t have sex after marriage because that creates babies and babies: A. Contribute to explosive population growth B. Cause global warming – all that warm [...]
Politicians, as I have often said, are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them. Everything on the Republican contract is a problem created by Congress. Too much bureaucracy? Blame Congress. Too many rules? Blame Congress. Unjust tax laws? Congress wrote them. Out-of-control bureaucracy? Congress authorizes everything bureaucracies do. [...]
Reprinted from Science News, Vol. 326 2009-10-02 without permission. By Gary J. Nabel The scientific method has driven conceptual inquiry for centuries and still forms the basis of scientific investigation. Yet, the hypothesis-based research paradigm itself has received scant attention recently. Here, I propose an alternative model for this paradigm, based on decision, information and [...]
This is just stellar. I like this guy. You gotta read this letter. Jimmy Carter, you are the father of the Islamic Nazi movement. You threw the Shah under the bus, welcomed the Ayatollah home, and then lacked the spine to confront the terrorists when they took our embassy and our people hostage. You’re the [...]