“[Rand] had a habit of exaggerating her own suffering, and she often forgot to credit those whose ideas she borrowed and who helped her in more material ways. She humiliated her husband. She could be narcissistic, shrill, demanding, untidy, even unclean, and her use of amphetamines exacerbated her angry outbursts,
Continue readingThe Guv wins again!
Shintaro Ishihara, Tokyo’s flippant governor-easily won re-election last week. Ishihara ran as an independent but was effectively supported by the Liberal Democratic Party and New Komeito. The Democratic Party of Japan did not field a candidate due to recent poor public approval ratings for Prime Minister Naoto Kan, who is
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Or why I am a dinosaur when it comes to on line courses. I am in the throes of taking a 16+ week class from one of America’s major universities. They have an on line program for the subject matter I am taking that is pretty comprehensive-involving on line classes
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I just finished my taxes-after having to take a time out to do some research on one particular set of deductions and non-deductions. I even ended up calling the IRS-where a very helpful lady helped me run the numbers to make sure I had it right. Guess we need to
Continue readingWhat should have been…..and never was.
Our future in space, stunted in its youth-because Americans, as a whole are pretty stupid. We went to the moon, in an aggressive fashion, and then pretty much stopped. When I think about all the money that has been wasted on all the wars between 1972 and now-we could have
Continue readingMalevolent surgery
ma·lev·o·lent? ?/m??l?v?l?nt/ –adjective 1. wishing evil or harm to another or others; showing ill will; ill-disposed; malicious: His failures made him malevolent toward those who were successful. 2. evil; harmful; injurious: a malevolent inclination to destroy the happiness of others. 3. Astrology . evil or malign in influence. That is
Continue readingMusic to orbit the Earth by.
I am a HUGE Jethro Tull fan. So much so-I am scheming to get to one of their performances when they tour the US this summer. So I found this unique video made with Ian Anderson and Astronaunt Cady Coleman to be pretty cool. She herself being an accomplished flautist.
Continue readingTail wagging the dog.
That would be what Allen West seems to appear to thrive on doing. Earlier this week-our boy Allen West once again showed his “Reader’s Digest” understanding of history when he decided to play the Churchill card: Mr. Speaker: Will we be Chamberlain or will we be Churchill? Neville Chamberlain, the
Continue readingMemo to Paul Ryan……
I suppose we should get the greetings and pleasantries out of the way first. Paul Ryan, please DROP DEAD! That’s how much I loathe his proposed and supposedly serious budget. None of his ideas are new, they are based on fuzzy math and proposals that don’t work. But the
Continue readingThe setting sun……
If you look to the left you will find that today is the 66th anniversary of the sinking of IJS Yamato by American aircraft and naval gunfire. A few years back I wrote this post about the movie made in Japan that talked about it. Last night was Easter, but
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