Cannot stand the Disqus system – I really can’t – but given that everyone here seems to be using the…

Watch volcanoes erupting on Io. An exoplanet found at the closest star to ours (please bear in mind what sort…

Read it. Especially liked the bit about Vasili Arkhipov.

I had hope not to touch on this subject, since it always provokes some very tedious responses, but since my…

Was poking around on youtube and found the following: Worth watching, and remembering what “nuclear proliferation” ultimately means.  There is…

The neologism “Islamophobia” has been forcibly inserted into our language with less protest than it deserves.  It has even made…

This is where we all came from:  

Gay marriage is the ultimate demonstration of how government is the worst way of getting almost anything done.  The issue…

I know the question that many will be asking: What the devil is with that blog title? 1.  I spend…