Rational Conservatism from the Rocky Mountains
Biggest news of the day here… NASA – NASA Spacecraft Confirms Martian Water, Mission Extended TUCSON, Ariz. — Laboratory tests aboard NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander have identified water in a soil sample. The lander’s robotic arm delivered the sample Wednesday to an instrument that identifies vapors produced by the heating of samples. “We have water,” [...]
I’ve actually been waiting for this story for quite a while. My mind works in funny ways, and the first time I ever thought about “new car smell” I immediately assumed that the smell came from all the chemicals used to soften plastics, foam out cushions and fake leather-looking materials. Having taken high-school chemistry and [...]
So here’s an illustration of a very common fish in southern rivers and reservoirs: It’s called a “needelnose gar” or at least that’s what it is called in northwest Louisiana where I used to do a lot of fishing. They live in close proximity to these fish: This is called an “alligator gar” for I [...]
… but knives do. I guess this will lead to calls for banning butcher knives in Canada. Knife-wielding man beheads fellow passenger on bus A passenger traveling on a bus across Canada’s vast Western plains stabbed, gutted and decapitated a man seated next to him in an unexplained attack, a witness told media Thursday. The [...]
So, when exactly did sending a kid to college become the financial equivalent of buying a vacation home in Miami Beach?
One of the things I ponder about when I decide to ponder is the nature of nothingness. For a long time humans thought “nothing” was that which existed apart from matter and energy. In other words, in the deepest, coldest, most remote corner of the universe, in a place where the nearest galaxies are millions [...]
I haven’t shot a lawnmower (yet) but I can promise you I have felt like it many, many times…. Man shoots his lawn mower, police say – CNN.com MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin (AP) — A 56-year-old Milwaukee man is accused of shooting his lawn mower because it wouldn’t start. Keith Walendowski has been charged with felony possession [...]
So I don’t listen to Rush much. I don’t dislike him really, I just find his style to grate on my nerves like fingernails on blackboards. I guess people respond to his self-aggrandizing sound bites, but they just make me want to change the station. But I was listening to him yesterday on the way [...]
OK, so we waited a week to see the big blockbuster of the summer. The theater was still fairly crowded, even for a Friday matinee movie (I took Friday off this week). Usually matinee showings are virtually empty so that means the evening showings were probably full. With the billions of words written and published [...]
The oldest rule in the books is “follow the money.” So let’s do that. IBDeditorials.com: Editorials, Political Cartoons, and Polls from Investor’s Business Daily — Putting Money Where Mouths Are: Media Donations Favor Dems 100-1 An analysis of federal records shows that the amount of money journalists contributed so far this election cycle favors Democrats [...]
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