AP News: Smashing success: NASA asteroid strike results in big nudge AP News: Smashing success: NASA asteroid strike results in big nudge Associated Press — Oct. 11, 2023 BY MARCIA DUNN CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A spacecraft that plowed into a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away succeeded in shifting its orbit, NASA … Continue reading KA-POW! Kicking A*s Amid the Asteroids: NASA Knocks The Rock’s Socks Off!
New York Times: Ukraine Is Weakened by Corruption, So How Is It Stymying the Russians? Oct. 10, 2022 By Peter Coy, Opinion Writer Corruption undermines society as surely as termites undermine houses. Ukraine suffers from corruption. So how has Ukrainian society nonetheless managed to stymie a Russian invasion, and even turn the tables on … Continue reading Ukraine & Corruption: A Major, Mostly Unmentioned Issue
[NOTE: No! This post was not taken from The Onion. Again NO! It was not written by the New Yorker’s brilliant Andy Borowitz. And honest, I can’t make this stuff up! It’s from today’s issue of the very staid & sober, thrice Pulitzer Prize-winning daily, the Raleigh News & Observer. That doesn’t make the subject any … Continue reading Breaking! Texas Pete Hot Sauce Drenched by False Advertising Lawsuit
In recent years, I’ve seen a number of articles about an imminent “crisis” in U. S. Higher education: enrollment is declining, they say, while costs keep going up; small colleges are on the brink; student loan debt is crushing a generation; it’s worse for poor and minority students . . . It can’t go on … Continue reading College Closures: Are the Wolves Coming? The British?
The Fair Wendy and I on date night. . . Down here we Don’t Say “Pay” for hurricane cleanup . . . 33333 But we’ll keep the Bible, including the story about Noah and his daughters, and Solomon’s 700 (or so) wives and 300 (more or less) concubines . . . And … Continue reading More Weekend Cartoons: Half Political/Half Not