This summer has been extraordinarily hot and dry in much of Europe, including places where air conditioning is rare. It's been miserable for a lot of residents and tourists, but on the positive side, a side effect has been the … Continue reading
A brief horror video (of a sort) from the folks at Corridor Digital. Link: https://youtu.be/4VKB4lV6dFA by … Continue reading
In case you somehow haven't already seen this: Link: https://youtu.be/8EsUNOIYyKg by … Continue reading
Senator John McCain has died of the same illness that took the life of my youngest brother just short of two years ago. I disagreed with Senator McCain about a lot of things and like all of us he was … Continue reading
In the latest episode of his HBO show Real Time, Bill Maher suggests that in buddying up with Putin and Russia Trump missed a better option, the other, more successful formerly Communist dictatorship, China. It gets funnier as it goes … Continue reading
From the folks at Engrish.com, a cryptic sign photographed in Tokyo by Ted Vogt: by … Continue reading
Dina Gusovsky is a writer for NBC's Late Night with Seth Meyers who came to the United State with her parents in the 1980s. Like many immigrants today the family was escaping a dangerous situation in their home country. She … Continue reading
I just ran across an interesting article published on the conservative American Enterprise Institute's website in 2016. Based on data from 2014, the author, Mark J. Perry, compares gross domestic product per capita of U.S. states and a number of … Continue reading
A few months ago I quoted the aphorism “never attribute malice to what can adequately be explained by stupidity,” and was asked for its source. I had to confess that I had no idea, but I've since managed to look … Continue reading
In 2010 Kansas elected extreme conservative Sam Brownback governor and put Tea Party Republicans in charge of the legislature. Together they passed a program of deep tax cuts and spending restrictions that they promised would quickly lead to a massive … Continue reading