First, RSS. Most of the stuff on the adjunct site will be published here first. And there will be an RSS capable announcement page on the google site.

The only thing that will happen to this site is that much of the menu bar above will disappear.

Lastly, the comment aliens is so intriguing that my next post I will answer it. I think a case can be made that the chances of a UFO full of aliens landing on the White House lawn is about the same as Santa Claus in the flesh landing on same. This will be fun.

Thanks Again,
Doug

Lastly,

Again, I will point out this isn’t accurate. I agree with you that aliens are NOT visiting earth in flying saucers, but to say “they don’t exist” is to VERY much overstate the case. We don’t know, one way or the other, and we don’t have enough info to even REALLY assess the likelihood that they exist in a scientific way.

BUT, and this is the key … given that earth supports life, and is one planet orbiting a relatively non-special star in a non-special galaxy, what are the odds that in all the trillions and trillions of stars out there, our sun is the ONLY one to have developed a planet with life around it? Strikes me, that would make us amazingly, unbelievably unique in the universe, and that sort o claim MUST have some backing to it.

Sagan said it best IMO. “If we are alone in the universe, what a tremendous waste of space.” Aliens aren’t visiting us in flying saucers, but I really don’t think it’s appropriate to say NO aliens exist. Given what we know today, if we ARE the only life in the universe, then we occupy a special position that needs to be explained. Until someone shows why earth is the only planet among TRILLIONS of stars to develop life, the logical assumption SHOULD be that life occurs anywhere that conditions allow it.

Brings to mind the Total Perspective Vortex on Frogstar B.

I think you should keep the icons and bar to the right because that is what made this site worth revisiting. Continue with you 2nd site but don’t alter this one. The design is very good. If you want to reduce content to streamline the focus of this site sounds good.
I have to disagree with your approach to the stance of Iran against the international thug nations bullying it. You have a cynical approach which is kinda ironic. Rather than reduce the matter to posturing and point scoring on oall sides I see a pattern of propaganda that has been systematically building over the years in the thug media and misinformation lobby groups that genuinely wish to damage more lives. We know the perpetrators of such aggression are capable of massacre and torture as they have shown in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I don’t agree that Iran is rallying its people to point score. They feel genuinely threatened and they are preparing to defend themselves. My question now is: Where is our international counter culture. Our predecessors took a stand against the Vietnam and Korean Wars with much more grit and seriousness. They rejected the propaganda thugs as unconvincing, impotent and weak. They were defiant against the kind of cynicism that only further corners the little guy and gives the thug a propaganda win.

Peace