It’s looking less and less likely that my planned vacation to Israel will take place, but November is a long way off and if the world and I are a little lucky, maybe this seeming prelude to World War III can fizzle out as fast as the whole thing flared up. I mean Dick Cheney […]

I’m going to come right out and say what the New York Times can only hint at with its top three headlines today.
Extra Extra! Hubbard and Keynes Throw End-Of-The-World Party! According to Experts, In the Long Run We’re All Dead!
The actual headlines:
U.S. Speeds Up Bomb Delivery For the Israelis
NASA’s Goals Delete Mention of […]

The news media spent the weekend debating how to play the graphic video footage coming from the G8 Summit in Russia. No not the extra strange incident where Our Fine President gave German Chancellor Angela Merkel an impromptu back rub, but the tape of him uttering the horrible word “shit” while talking about the Israel-Hezbollah […]

All those naysayers who see global warming as a silly myth or the harmless coming of endless summer can no longer say the ongoing renovation of Earth’s atmosphere isn’t going to hurt anyone. The geniuses from the department of earth and atmospheric sciences at Purdue University just published a fine paper in Proceedings of the […]

Bubbles are foaming over the sides of whatever pot’s been holding the long simmering conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, and the United Nations is quickly springing to resolutionary action. Israel’s heavy-fisted response to the Palestinian attack on an Israeli army outpost and subsequent kidnaping of 19-year-old Cpl. Gilad Shalit is drawing diplomatic fire from […]

When things aren’t going exactly as planned our leaders like to blame the media with attacks on the patriotism of The New York Times and the like. The media are an easy target, plenty easy for a scattershot like Dick Cheney to hit. They’re big and slow and aren’t going anywhere. Plus, as an added […]