News flash: Two American Ebola patients released from Atlanta hospital. Take that, you miserable cowardly crowds who were screeching that they should be kept from returning to their home country. “Let them die in Africa” was the implicit message you were sending. One wonders how big the intersection is between the screechers above and the …
Surely there’s more to life than going from week to week, marking each by whether it’s the Thursday when you have to put out the green waste rubbish bin or the Thursday when the blue plastic and newspaper waste one is scheduled. Monday night is always the night the gray non-recyclable stuff goes out, so …
The news that the NFL was thinking of charging its Super Bowl halftime performers a fee for the right to their 12 minutes of glory before the stupendously large TV audience that is couch-bound on Super Bowl Sunday seems obnoxious enough to me. But it’s even worse than I thought. It’s asking the performers to …
Way back in 1970 or 1971 I went to the Grand Canyon from Tucson with two fraternity brothers, Jack Thompson of Mt. Kisco, New York and Drew Harvey of Tupelo, Mississippi. It was spring break and we were intrepid. We had driven the 535 miles in Jack’s Renault R-10, and we wanted to stretch out …
I was under the impression that when Missouri Governor Nixon named Captain Ron Johnson of the Highway Patrol to be in charge of the scene in Ferguson, he’d be in charge. On the night he was named (Thursday) the town appeared to be pretty peaceful and all the military hardware and heavy weaponry was out …
1,769. That’s the number of votes which separated incumbent Senator Brian Schatz from his challenger in the delayed finish of last Saturday’s primary election. There were two precincts in the Puna district of the Big Island which remained unopen last weekend due to Hurricane/Tropical Storm Iselle’s impact on the region. Senator Schatz prevailed over US …
#CometWatch 14 August. Don’t you just love how different #67P looks from different angles? 🙂 https://t.co/gyTSSTSNdF pic.twitter.com/2TS6kmaCer — ESA Rosetta Mission (@ESA_Rosetta) August 15, 2014 That’s Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. It’s the one that scientists hope to put a lander on in November (three months away!). To their surprise, though, it’s kicking out dust while still very …
this is 1967 and 2014 there's no difference #ferguson pic.twitter.com/RuzuviGpXt — chris (@VoidRauhl) August 14, 2014 I remember those summers of 1966, 1967 and 1968. They weren’t joyful. They were dark and dismaying. And now, 47 years later, it appears they’re repeating themselves in one black suburb of St. Louis. The town is 67% black, while …
She and Bogie were only married for 12 years before he died of esophageal cancer. What a damned shame that was.
Williams died today at his home in Marin County, Ca. The police suspect suicide of asphyxiation. I really hope that’s not true. I realize it’s ridiculous to prefer one reason for a 63-year-old man to die over another, but suicide is so cruel to those who remain behind. He had two ex-wives and three children …