Math in the bath

I’ve been painting the house here and there, on and off, for a month or two. Don’t you love it when I’m precise? Last weekend I started the bedroom, which had previously been a dark blue-green —  [more...]

I’m dreading my next property tax assessment. Here’s why: Home assessments in Montgomery County have risen nearly 70 percent in the past three years, according to state officials, driven by a hot real estate  [more...]

Here we are, sixty years later — the only nation to have ever used nuclear weapons. We still have them to this day, and expend a lot of energy trying to keep others from having them, using them as an excuse to  [more...]