Reading Rebecca Watson’s Slate article on sexism and sexual harassment in the skeptical community depressed me this morning. (And with a cold coming on and
Trump Announces He’s A Very Sad Man: The Onion is funny because it’s true. A Brazilian Man Showed Up At His Own Funeral. I wonder
My Dad just entered hospice (at home, not at a facility), which makes this news about former Presidential candidate George McGovern hit extra hard. I
It’s been a strange week here in Shangri-La. Strange and expensive. The reading tomorrow will come as a great relief, at least once I’m done.
Today I’m mostly pondering the 41st anniversary of the day I started breathing independently. It hasn’t been a particularly interesting birthday thus far, but anything
The disruption of a dead fuel pump and fuel relay put a huge dent in the pondering end of my business. But though I’m certain
To take my mind off of mounting car repair bills, here’s what I’m pondering: Tom Tomorrow encapsulates almost everything that bothered me about the first
Paul Krugman on the folly of expecting the people of Greece and Spain to accept quietly policies that immiserate them. A New York Times article
Japanese physicists claim to have created element 113. If confirmed, this would mark the first time an Asian nation has won naming rights to an
On my way to the post office today, I drove behind someone with a “9/11 was an inside job” sticker on his car. I’m always