Sunday Bag o’ Books
I’m changing my reading habits, adding listening to my repertoire.
Thursday Updates
What if, on Earth 2, Wheel was a little more like Jeopardy?
Grifters Gonna Grift
Color me shocked to learn Trump has found a new way to prop up his money-losing businesses.
Air-Minded: Tankers … in Spaaace!
The V-2 rocket, with its sleek cigar-shaped body, pointed nose, and swept-back fins, entered the imaginations of people the world over. It lent its iconic shape to the science fiction spaceships of the 1950s and 60s, and still has a firm grip on our dreams.
It’s All a Racket
Like most Americans, I was raised to believe my country was not corrupt. Of course it is and always has been, because human nature makes corruption inevitable. I’m thinking about corruption in light of news that a Korean aircraft manufacturer paid $150,000 to a shell company set up by Michael Cohen, Trump’s fixer. A huge […]
Tuesday Bag o’ Scattershot
“I found much that was alarming about being a citizen during the tenures of Richard Nixon and George W. Bush. But, whatever I may have seen as their limitations of character or intellect, neither was anything like as humanly impoverished as Trump is: ignorant of government, of history, of science, of philosophy, of art, incapable […]