Sally Ride, First American Woman In Space, Is Dead

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...]

I am working from home today, so although I got up at the usual 6am, I had time to putter around before work at 7. I rummaged around in one of my big bins of tech to find a few spare hard drives so that I could back up  [more...]

I love Molly Ivins. I’ve started off plenty of blog entries with that phrase over the years, and my sentiment hasn’t changed and won’t; but the news from Austin is sad and discouraging. Molly  [more...]