For your lunar holiday

Though this appears to chart the weak spots in the Death Star, in fact it marks the spots in the polar region where there’s water on the moon: I guess astronauts can set up a wet bar? ADDITIONAL: The Chile earthquake was pretty powerful all right–it...

The future without jetpacks

I remember well the sense of anticipation we all felt about our future jetpacks, an item, I maintain, that we were virtually guaranteed as young Americans. It’s engendered such angst that few people of a certain age can manage to think about the future without...

Our Dumb Media

When is it a story–it’s even the headline here–that Obama’s advisors are “set to recommend” something? If he takes this incredibly stupid bit of advice (aka political hari-kiri), I will trot out all the usual annoyance that surfaces...

Rolling snake eyes

If someone has been in a plane crash, what are the odds they will be in two crashes? Shouldn’t you fly with them to be safer? And if a plane crashes, shouldn’t you take the next plane out–what are the odds two planes in a row will crash? Such strange...

Too conservative even for Texas

Back in my old stomping grounds, Texans narrowly rejected Don McLeroy, the fundamentalist nut who’s threatening to turn textbooks into God first, Reagan second conservative hymnals. Well done, folks! The other guy is a moderate Republican who believes God...