In case we forget
Today is the sixtieth anniversary of the use of nuclear weapons on Japan in World War II. Rather than go into the justification or lack of justification for those events, I’d rather point to the fact...
View ArticleLouisiana 1927
I suppose I should say something about what has been happening on the Gulf Coast these last 7 days. A Randy Newman song, which this post is titled after, has been surfacing in my head over and over...
View ArticleI browse, I link, I’m back.
So I’m quoted, or rather my alter-ego is quoted, talking about drugs that boost certain limited aspects of intelligence. This, in all things, in Spin Magazine–tsk, tsk. Ah me, famous at last. DARPA...
View ArticleNow this is really neat!
Some guy went and built himself a giant robot suit to cruise around in! I mean, think of the legions and legions of ten year olds and former ten year olds who’ve always wanted to do something like...
View ArticleMy History with Gizmo Wristwatches
"The Casio C 80 calculator watch. It's a nerd thang, you got to understand!" src="images/casio.jpg"/> When I was in college back in the middle Eighties, I had a Casio calculator watch. This was the...
View ArticleJack Kirby in Motion
So this is really a miscellaneous post about several things and just an excuse to keep my site from going stale. The animated image is just there so you won’t think this is a complete waste of your...
View ArticleWe are all living inside in a Consolidated track
Okay, so around September of last year, I had a second SQL injection of boner pill links on my site. In the intervening twelve months, the true nature of one in five people in this country has...
View ArticleHow to Prevent Demagogues in the United States
First, fix the Electoral College. Many people still view the EC as some brilliant move of statesmanship worked out by our supernally wise founders back 1787. This is not supported by history. The...
View ArticleWhat Is to Be Done?
What’s happening to my generation’s children, the Millennials, is similar but also worse than what happened to my generation, Generation X. At least my generation had a lot of terrible, entry level...
View ArticleThe Unexpected Intersectionality of The Who
It’s so hard to get a diverse bunch of people to make common cause. Especially when there is a tiny elite (Some of which aren’t flesh and blood human beings if legally they they are.) with huge amounts...
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