The rain stopped long enough for this wild view… Yes, those are clouds dipping way down in front of the mountains.

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 climbed aboard the light rail today and headed downtown to nose about. The light rail here is certainly nothing like Metro (or BART), but it does the job. One feature that it does have above the others is a convenient  [more...]

Here’s some history that I was completely unaware of, and it happened right in my hometown 37 years ago today. The leader of the American Nazi party, George Lincoln Rockwell, has been shot and killed by a sniper  [more...]