One sad thing about the paranormal wonders of my youth is that under the bright light of adult analysis…many fade away like dew in the sun. The Bermuda Triangle, Ghosts, Nessie, UFOs and a host of others are little more than shadows when it comes to empirical evidence. There are exceptions though. Exactly 100 years [...]
Yes, that’s an assault rifle. What’s going on here? Where was this picture taken? How would you react if you came across this fellow a local convenience store? (As always, image is explained at end of post.)
In America guns are in the news today. In an historic ruling yesterday the Supreme Court revisited the [...]
I hear a lot of griping these days about the price of gas, often accompanied by insistence that our leaders should “do something” about the problem. Since it’s our leaders who got us into this situation in the first place, that’s a hell of a thing to expect them to do. The oil companies should [...]
An update on what’s going on in the three new colonies set up by the Bush administration in his efforts to make the world a better place. (Of course making the world a better place means installing pro-American administrations in resource rich areas of the world.) I am of course talking about Afghanistan, Iraq, and [...]
Another Friday, another day of semi-random musings about the state of the world. It’s actually been a fairly eventful week as world news goes, and at least some of it is good. Granted I do cover a lot of depressing things, but the world is a depressing place right now. I’m trying to come up [...]
Memorial Day is over, I hope everyone had great picnics and family gatherings, and my prayers to those who have lost friends and family in any war, especially the current ones. I was going to post on Memorial Day but couldn’t bring myself to sully the memories of the fallen by getting on the same [...]
Well, yeesh, I haven’t posted in a week. The world just seems so strange to me now…so I figure that people who have noticed don’t need me to tell them, and people who haven’t noticed aren’t going to be persuaded. Fortunately I have resisted the urge to run screaming into the street. I mean, I [...]
All these terrible things keep happening in the world, and I want to write about them, but there’s a problem. After spending the last few years studying the world and history I have discovered that much of the “common knowledge” about what the world is like is so far off base that I have to [...]
In the same spirit as my column on the Dyatlov Pass Accident I thought I’d cover another historical disaster mystery, the 1975 London Moorgate tube crash. This was a subway train cash where 43 people died immediately, a few more subsequently dies of their injuries. It is the second worst subway disaster in English history. [...]
Well, I am back from my journey to Canada. Roots and all that, I will post more at some point. Nothing terribly exciting happened, but customs got a good laugh when they X-rayed my bag and saw a giant metal bug. It’s an ashtray. The news though. Oh my. Lots of it. Cults going wild [...]
