VOYAGER…GOING…GOING…GOING (…and on to galaxies far, far, away…) Thirty five years ago we launched a small space probe from Earth. It’s still going strong today, having remained in communication with us all that time as it passed by the outer
LION-A-LA-CARTE (…more exotic eats for upwardly mobile gastronomes…) A curious news snippet caught our attention the other day. Some members of the Illinois State Legislature are seeking to ban the sale and marketing of lion meat in that state. Apparently
MARS…A NEW WORLD TO CONQUER? (…colonizing an outback) Our monster dune buggy, the rover vehicle named – Curiosity – appears to have struck gold, or rather…water, and essential minerals such as phosphorus and carbon, along with hydrogen, nitrogen…all the essential
FRANCIS THE FIRST (…achieving a Jesuit apotheosis?) Catholics have a new pope, and he has chosen to be named – Francis 1st -. It is an interesting and intriguing choice because, given his Jesuit background, his choice of that name
HUGO CHAVEZ (…flamboyant rider of autocratic populism) Hugo Chavez, of Venezuela, is dead of cancer, after fourteen years in power as its –El Supremo – . His rise to power is a classic example of what almost always emerges from
LILO…AN ONGOING SAGA (…of a celebutante-going-to-seed) Our pop-culture world seems to keep on cranking out an endless roster of bad boys and girls. A pop-culture roster that seems stuck in the era of sex, drugs, and rock and roll…not to
NORTH KOREA (…the ravings of loudmouthed lunatics?) I left Korea 63 years ago…and have never been back since. My memories of that brief war-torn experience, during the first three months of a so-called – police action- are not the most
WIKKI-WHACKY- SEQUESTERIA (…with lots of guano from fiscal dingbats under the Capitol dome) The way things are working in Washington right now, our good old USA seems to be rapidly headed towards becoming just another banana republic. From any perspective,
MAKE THE CONGRESS …GO AWAY… (…get it off of our taxpaying shoulders…) As pointed out before, the last Congress at the end of December, 2012, simply kicked the – Fiscal Cliff – can down the road, thus avoiding any political
BIN LADEN’S POISON PILL LEGACY TO AMERICA (…institutionalized paranoid perspectives about terrorism…) Bin Laden may have been tossed out with other trash into –the dustbin of history-, but he still managed to deliver a poison pill legacy to America. It’s