REFLECTIONS ON VETERANS DAY (…a remembrance of times past) Our family has had a long connection with things military, some of that going as far back as the Revolutionary War, and with almost every one since that time. So both
I CAME UP WITH THE IDEA FIRST (…even if neither Al Gore nor Nobel have ever heard about it) With all due respect to our former Vice President, he didn’t invent the Internet…I did. I came up with the idea
THE PASSING OF AN EARLY PATHFINDER (…which led to our reaching for those unreachable stars) Scot Carpenter passed away last week, with little fanfare or notice, mostly because few people today were around to witness his venture as our second
CELEBRITIES ARE FORTING UP (…in good old medieval style digs) It seems that some celebrities of the entertainment world have come up with a great idea for defending themselves and their privacy, against those barbarous hordes of paprazzi and stalkers
OLD WRINKLES….FOR NEW TAX SCAMS (…proving that super-nannyism is still alive and well in San Francisco) We’re always amazed at how inventive career politicos are in coming up with new ways to impose taxation loads on their constituents, especially if
ROLL BACK THE BARREL…. (‘cause no one’s having any fun!) The roll-out of the Federal web site to “help” folks sign up for Obama Care…is a classic example of the old adage…haste makes waste…and in this case that waste will
SINCE ELVIS HAD THE SMARTS TO LEAVE IT… (…there are no adults left in DC…) The puerile political minuets by both the White House and the Congress, to maintain their arguments about the budget, thus keeping the government shutdown in
YES, VIRGINIA…THERE’S A GOD… (…but it may just be a…particle…) Among this year’s Nobel prizes awarded was one to a professor of physics at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, for his long posited theory about there being a single “god
SOME RIGHT IDEAS…SCUTTLED BY WRONG METHODS (…much like throwing the baby out with the bathwater…) No one can argue that our entire fiscal and budgetary system is not a mess, and, unless we quit playing political games about it, our