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The shootings just keep coming. We had the Buffalo racist based killing about two weeks ago, then we had the Texan school killing maybe last week, and then this week is a bunch of smaller killings: the Tulsa hospital, a cemetery, and a church. These smaller ones may be being reported because we had such…

I think on Wednesday, William Shatner (aka Captain James T. Kirk) blasted off into space for 10 minutes as the oldest man to experience space. Those who grew up watching the Star Trek series as science fiction/space travel fans (probably around the 60’s, maybe early 70’s as syndication run) definitely thought he was the perfect…

“Space of possibility” is a compelling piece of phrasing to describe what is possible for one to creatively connect two disparate concepts. According to Beau Lotto, one can’t connect two concepts lying far apart in space because those two the items are not within our space of possibility. We haven’t lived the experiences to be…

Tonight hurricane Ida is barreling down the Gulf to hit one of the southern states – Louisiana for now – Sunday afternoon. Tonight is going to be a sleepless night as I worry where the hurricane will hit. When I was growing up, we would get warnings of level 1 or 2 hurricanes and those…

I’m working on some program to try to see which files I want to keep and which I can ditch, so this post will be short. There is so much bad news in the world. Afghanistan Tragedy The news coming out of there is just so distressing. People who rely on very stridently on religious…

Just a quick post tonight in response to the news of the verdict last night. I’m relieved the verdict came out the way it did. From all appearances, and I’m not an expert in law nor did I follow every detail of the case, but the video (well, I actually didn’t see the video but…