An auspicious day

As I was driving home today in the rain, surrounded by drivers flying down the slick roads with their lights off, I looked up into the rear-view mirror. There was a large van or SUV behind me. It took me a moment to  [more...]

Just yesterday, I was talking with someone about earthquakes and how, after two years in the Bay Area, I hadn’t experienced more than a tiny sway. And then this morning the voice on the radio told me that there  [more...]

This just makes no sense on the face of it: today’s bombs in London — four of them — all failed to completely detonate? What are the odds of this? Is it possible, or even conceivable, that a  [more...]