Finally!! All U.S. troops remaining in Iraq, some 39,000, are heading home and will be out of Iraq by December 31. What took so long? Pres. George W. Bush took his eye off the ball in Afghanistan and our search for Osama bin Laden and sent troops into Iraq in 2003, supposedly because Saddam Hussein … Continue reading It’s about damn time!
The Libyan rebels caught and killed Moammar Gadhafi today. I was surprised to hear it only because I had assumed that by now he’d fled the country, possibly with a big pile of those missing shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles. Since he opted to stay in Libya as he’d sworn he would, his capture and death were … Continue reading Gadhafi’s dead, turn on the oil
This evening I stumbled across a large collection of satellite photos of Earth entitled “Our Earth as Art: A Landsat Perspective.” Each is a beautiful abstract image — that also happens to be a spectacular color photo of someplace on our planet. There are approximately 130 such images available on the USGS website, which says … Continue reading Earth as art, a project of the USGS and NASA
Two American hikers held in Iran for the last two years are back on American soil today, but I’m still asking myself why, with the entire globe available to them, they chose to go hiking along the Iran-Iraq border in the first place. At the very least, it was incredibly stupid. And now that the … Continue reading Ransom is ransom
Damn, there goes the power. I think. Wait, the laptop is still running. Dummy, it has a battery. Crap, that damn security system. I discontinued the service over a year ago but their stupid box still starts beeping — loudly — when the power goes off and won’t stop until I enter the code. I’ve … Continue reading Thoughts on a power outage
You never know what you’ll stumble across on the Internet. For me this evening it was the discovery of a fascinating article on Michelangelo’s David. In the opinion of the author, J. Huston McCulloch, the David is not properly oriented in Florence’s Galleria dell’Academia. The view we see most often, shown here, is not the … Continue reading Michelangelo’s David: Which side is the right side?
