I have spent much of the last year or so writing either on the Chronicle or here about this and that. Most of the time the topic has trended to education, but I hate to dominate the conversation with shop talk. Recently, our conversations have trended towards poverty, welfare, and NASA. Now, those are three you normally don't see in the same sentence. It's high time we take stock in where we are and where...
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Saints win after a 43 year long drought. It was a great game, battled until the last minute.Good for New Orleans....
Sarah Palin was regaled last night with cheers of "Run! Sarah, Run!" after she finished her speech and Q&A at the National Teabagger Convention in Nashville. Her appearance was filled with the normal Fargoesque "You betchas" and folksy sayings as she ripped President Obama with the usual false claims that he can't speak without a teleprompter or prepared notes. That charge, of course, was very publicly disproved yet again last week after the President single...
From 1983, featuring Aaron Neville, here's the original Who Dat video:Go Saints!...
Installed now in The Curve at the Barbican in London, artist Celeste Boursier-Mougenot, an aviery filled with zebra finches and electric guitars makes for an interesting sight-sound experience. I really like the one who uses a twig as a guitar pick on the Les Paul. Have a look:I'm very busy right now and will post when I can. Have a great weekend....
Thomas Paine wrote Common Sense back in the 18th century. It made a brilliant case for revolution and if for a brief moment, personified common sense. As time has gone on, common sense has been fading like the gene pool in the Bush family. Today's tale brings us to the lonestar state where our state legislature has become educational experts in much the same way as that new vibrating ab cruncher gets us in shape:...
I think most people who live in the real world (leaving out the gutless wonders who inhabit Washington, D.C.) will agree that if we ever hope to get our fiscal house in order some tough choices will have to be made. David Pauly has a piece at Bloomberg today with 9 suggestions:1) Restore all income taxes to the pre-President George W. Bush level, not just those for people earning $250,000 or more. 2) Tax the...
As I write this, I want to establish that I am only talking about other people's opinions and not my own. As a Clear Lake resident, I am around people in the space industry on a daily basis. Some people stand in awe at astronauts while those of us in Clear Lake kind of yawn. However, we are acutely aware of important the space industry is to our immediately community. I would harbor the guess...
We've heard the cries that "it's time to stop being politically correct and start profiling Muslims at airports!" I contend that it would be an ineffective practice that would make us less safe from terror attacks. When we go through security checkpoints at the airport, every single passenger passes through a metal detector. Shoes are removed and x-rayed. Belongings are scrutinized with x-ray technology by trained security personell. Those that look suspicious, those that...
For those of you who've worried about who the GOP should nominate for President, worry no more...I've found your ideal candidate: Denny Crane for President!...
