Sunday, February 19, 2017
I was in 4th grade and watched the first NASA manned Mercury launch from my classroom, and every other launch was just as much a special event all the way through the Gemini and Apollo programs. After some years, it seems such things became rather routine, until the Challenger disaster. Then many of us realized that this is never routine, never safe. Today I watched the SpaceX launch without that casual assumption that, of course all will go well. And then something new happened, when the tall... Sign in to see full entry.
Friday, February 17, 2017
Just because we can...
Remember JURASSIC PARK? Remember how they explained right up front that the dinosaurs were not actually the same as the originals, because their DNA was mixed with modern frog DNA? https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/feb/16/woolly-mammoth-resurrection-scientists Is it really 'de-extinction' when the result is not actually a woolly mammoth? Seems to me, these efforts will result in a new thing, not an old one, and the arguments for doing it seem... far-fetched. For instance, how many of... Sign in to see full entry.
Wednesday, February 15, 2017
Hostile Takeover
Trump is, I suspect, beginning to realize that he is not CEO of a country, that the tactics of a hostile takeover are not going to work here. He seems to have come to this job thinking he could raise all his buddies to positions from which they can liquidate all the assets of the nation, dismantle all the systems in place and reshape them to channel money to himself and who he likes. What he has never understood is that as President of the United States, he works for us: He is our employee, our... Sign in to see full entry.
Saturday, February 11, 2017
Here's a thing...
This is copy/pasted from something I found on Facebook that invited readers to copy and paste. A Trump supporting Facebook friend told Scott Mednick, "We suffered for eight years. Now it’s your turn.” Scott wrote a brilliant response asking how exactly his friend had suffered under Obama: There will never be a President who does everything to everyone’s liking. There are things President Obama (and President Clinton) did that I do not like and conversely there are things I can point to that the... Sign in to see full entry.
Thursday, February 9, 2017
Life in these United States
...just came under further threat. With the confirmation of a confirmed racist as Attorney General, the White Supremacist creeps who have been coming out from under their rocks since the Trump regime came into power, now have someone to back them up with the power of law. It is a comforting thought that when Trump goes, his cabinet will go with him. I only worry about how much irreparable damage they can do in the meantime. Sign in to see full entry.
Monday, February 6, 2017
Here's a link...
https://grabyourwallet.org/ I am looking through this list, seeing plenty of places I don't shop anyway, brands I've never bought. I see a couple that I will continue to use, but can contact to tell them I would use them more if they divested from their Trump interests. In a world that's all about money, nothing grabs their attention faster than reducing their profits. Here's another, if you want to be responsible, or not, for who brings you chocolates:... Sign in to see full entry.
The White House Circus
Why is anyone still paying attention to the spokespersons for today's White House? They rant, they whine, they lie... There is no point to responding to nonsense, there is no useful information coming from any of them. In fact, they are a distraction from actually significant things going on. We know they're doing it, we hardly need to stockpile more evidence. If anyone still doesn't see it, it's because they don't want to see it, and no additional information will change their opinions. I... Sign in to see full entry.
Thursday, February 2, 2017
Verbalizing Snow
It snows. It is snowing It snew. It has snown. Sign in to see full entry.
Thursday, January 26, 2017
Made in America
When I was a kid in the 1960s, it was the early years of the race to space, and there was such a push on for American students to excel, especially in the sciences! Education was considered vital to American interests, to the supremacy of America socially and politically, back when we really were leaders in the world and had the desire to live up to that label, rather than just take it as given because our parents wore it well from World War 2 onwards. It wasn't as if we ha d no fools, no... Sign in to see full entry.
Wednesday, January 4, 2017
I dreamed a dream... that I made my way through a dark and dismal surrounding and found a place lit by dark fires and filled with discordant sounds and rhythms and the metallic buzz and whine of flies... In the center, savages in suits hung about with emblems of power and mystery, of devices of magics dependent on death and suffering, pranced madly around a great porcine head on a tall stake. The current Congress and President and his advisors can invent programs and make laws with all the power... Sign in to see full entry.