Archive for category: Current Events

End of An Era Steve Jobs: a personal remembrance

Freedom of Religion: Not Just a Clever Name More than 2,000 Evangelical, Orthodox Chaplains Join Catholics in Opposing Pentagon Directive on Same-Sex Marriage

Impressive. Most Impressive. Mind-Controlled Machine That ‘Feels’ May Usher in ‘Jedi’ Prosthetics

Mmmmm…. Yeti… Tastes Like Chicken. Russian and US Scientists Gather to Hunt Down Yeti

It’s Cold Outside, No Kind of Atmosphere, I’m All Alone, More Or Less The Plan to Bring an Asteroid to Earth

What’s Really Eerie is the Realization That I Am The Last Generation That Experientially Knows What the Phrases “Dialing a Phone”, “Winding a Watch”, “Taping a Show”, “Rewind, Fast Forward” Actually Mean. Cartooning vs. Technology: How Steve Jobs Ruined Comics

This Has Nothing To Do With Not Offending Other Religions – It’s Just Hatred For Christianity, Because the Changes Are UTTERLY MEANINGLESS Since The Calendar Is Still Tied to the Birth of Christ In Any Case. BBC turns its back on year of Our Lord: 2,000 years of Christianity jettisoned for politically correct ‘Common Era’

Awesome. Now If They Could Just Develop a Vaccine for Malaria. Scientists Disarm AIDS Virus’ Attack on Immune System

Discrimination in Any Form is Evil, Regardless of Who The Victim Happens to Be. And Yes, ‘Minorities’ Can Be Racist, Too. Controversy erupts over Campus Republicans bake sale plans

And the War on Meat, and the War on Sugar, and the War on Fat, and all the Other Stupid Vegan Nonsense Let’s Put a Stop to the War on Salt

Hero Among Heroes World War II veteran who survived Bataan Death March, built legacy of hope dies in Ill. at 105

Nothing Beats Spock How to Win at Rock, Paper, Scissors

Meep, Meep! Mayor dumps gift-wrapped 20-tonne boulder on ex-wife’s lawn

That You, Coop? Is the mystery of DB Cooper about to be solved? FBI reveals it has new suspect 40 years after America’s most elusive fugitive parachuted from a hijacked plane

I Have No Problem With People Who Excercise Their Liberty of Conscience to Not Believe – It’s the Fundies That Are the Problem… Stop the Atheists at Ground Zero

We Are Destroying the Very Thing That Keeps a Republic Healthy Why It’s Time to Speak about God Again

Don’t Mess With the Bears Get off my patch! How two tigers left with their tails between their legs after being scared off by a protective mother bear

How Many Other Scams Have We Bought in the Same Way? The Global Warming Hoax: How Soon We Forget