Today would have been Charles Darwin’s 200th birthday. There are those who think that Darwin was the most important scientist ever. That is overstating the case, although in the field of biology it is probably impossible to diminish his importance.… Continue Reading
Vodkapundit is way cool. I don’t know where else to go, other maybe Sideways Mencken, to get such an effective mix of Battlestar Galactica references with a blend of political analysis and history.
We Americans tend not to think much about the weather. Southern Californians think even less about it. But we often lose sight of how critically important the weather is. Consider: About 70,000 years ago, there was a massive volcanic explosion… Continue Reading
The dwarf cups his hand,Whispers, “You are but a man.”Does the crowd still cheer?
On this day in 1737, Thomas Paine was born in Thetford, England. If we look to men like George Washington, John Adams, and Alexander Hamilton as our founding fathers, we should look to Thomas Paine as the irritable, curmudgeonly, and… Continue Reading
Can we agree, at the threhshold of this post, that calculus is an immensely significant area of knowledge? It enables us to build bridges, send astronauts into space, and generate electricity by splitting atoms. I don’t pretend to understand calculus… Continue Reading
Barack Obama is not the forty-fourth President of the United States. No, I’m not talking about the de minimis error in the wording of the oath he swore this morning (which was John Roberts’ fault, and Roberts can be forgiven… Continue Reading
I’ll say this for Congressman Jose Serrano (D-NY) — he introduced a bill to repeal the Twenty-Second Amendment in 2005, just after George W. Bush was re-elected. So he is being evenhanded to introduce it again now that a member… Continue Reading
The guys who set up their rocket launching sites in the middle of civilian housing areas, surrounded by noncombatant women and children, and then fire their rockets indiscriminately across their borders into civilian-occupied areas of their neighbors, are the bad… Continue Reading
These look like they were taken around the Black Hills in maybe the 1870’s or 1880’s. As far as I can tell, they’re genuine.