Rational Conservatism from the Rocky Mountains
APOD: 2007 January 5 – Comet McNaught Heads for the Sun Early morning risers with a clear and unobstructed eastern horizon can enjoy the sight of Comet McNaught (C/2006 P1) in dawn skies over the next few days. Discovered in August by R. H. McNaught (Siding Spring Survey) the comet has grown bright enough to [...]
The Skinny: Follow The Money? Nah, Democrats’ Ethics Reform Package Leaves Out Campaign Contributions – CBS News But Somebody Forgot Campaign Contibutions … What don’t the new rules address? Campaign donations! The presence of lobbyists and other contributors was indeed not limited at the host of fund-raisers this week, including this evening’s event thrown by [...]
My brother runs a fishing website called Walleye Central. It’s one of the top sports-related sites on the internet, and the top Walleye site in the world. He linked to this blog so that people could have a place to indulge their political sweet tooth. So a few words about CosmicConservative. First of all, this [...]
SanDisk announces 32GB SSD: prices begin to fall – Engadget If yesterday’s announcement by Samsung was a tiny step in the direction of solid state disk (SSD) ubiquity, then today’s announcement by SanDisk is a freakin’ leap. That’s right, the big bad daddy of consumer flash — SanDisk — joins Samsung and TDK today with [...]
Pelosi ready to make history as new speaker – Nation/Politics – The Washington Times, America’s Newspaper A new Congress convenes today with a narrow Democratic majority lording over a despondent Republican minority. While the full weight of Republicans’ powerlessness sinks in after 12 years of control, Democrats are celebrating the historic election today of the [...]
Blue Origin spacecraft unmasked! « Futuresheet In a surprise move, the normally secretive Blue Origin has unveiled pictures of its development vehicle and a video of its maiden voyage. The flight occurred Nov. 13, 2006. The vehicle is called Goddard, which is the first vehicle in the New Shepard program. The immediate objective is developing [...]
So, this morning, driving in to work, I realized that I had started my novel in the wrong place. I need to set up a later scene so that it has the proper impact, and the way the novel starts, I can’t do that unless I liberally implement flashbacks, something I don’t want to do. [...]
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