I listen to the news coming in from around the world, and all I can do is shake my head and worry ( Read more... )

I detest speculation. Yes, I do. But I'm still going to voice my opinion on what caused Asiana flight 214 to crash at San Francisco today ( Read more... )

We've lost one of the Great Authors of the science fiction genre ( Read more... )

Welcome to October. It's time for a brain dump.

First, as Captain Tightpants remarked, "half of writing history is hiding the truth." That simple statement sums up why there's extremely little coverage of the Occupy Wall Street protests in what most people call the "mainstream media". The "mainstream media" in the United States should more ( Read more... )

The morning "news" (and I use that word loosely) has been up in arms today about how an airplane carrying the First and Second Ladies got "dangerously close" to a military cargo aircraft, and how it was the controllers' fault, and how bad the situation was, and, and, and...
( If you're easily offended, don't read what's behind the link )

Everyone and their kid sister is up in arms over air traffic controllers snoozing on the job. But no one until recently looked at the shifts a lot of controllers are putting in ( Read more... )

Laura Schlessinger needed to be off the air years ago. Her Ph.D. in physiology doesn't qualify her to give relationship advice any more than my license to drive a truck qualifies me to design ships. And the only person keeping her from talking is herself, to which I say "about gorram time ( Read more... )

We lost another one. And one of the best in his field.

Farewell, Ronnie James Dio.

*poof*

I've put off talking about this for a bit, but I think the time has come to trot my arguments out.

( Cut for those not who aren't interested...you know who you are. )