[Carl Sagan] The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it But the way those atoms are put together The cosmos is also within us We’re made of star stuff We are a way for the cosmos to know itself!
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A Favorite Sagan Quote
Posted in Miscellaneous Stuff on April 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Ms. Hatoyama and the Cosmic Rays
Posted in Miscellaneous Stuff on March 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
According to several news sources, the Federal Government is looking into the possibility that cosmic rays are affecting the computers on Toyotas. I wonder if this has anything to do with the trip that the Japanese Premier’s wife’s made to Venus.
No Sympathy for Liars
Posted in Miscellaneous Stuff on July 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So, the bailout is now passed with a guarantee from the White House of “no veto.” I feel much better now. Nancy Pelosi and the sponsors of the bill are seeking to “save” homeowners (?) from a new American monster called “repossession.” They are treating this “new” evil as some kind of disease that is [...]
A Comment Heard at Dinner
Posted in Miscellaneous Stuff on July 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Isn’t this a great country when the number one problem among the poor is obesity?
Polygamy and Butchery: Morally Equivalent?
Posted in Miscellaneous Stuff, Uncategorized on June 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
On Saturday as I drove to Wal-mart to pick up a few things for the Great Stephens Camping Expedition which kicks off on Monday, June 23, I was listening to a radio program that featured a guy named Dr. Dean Edell. Supposedly, he is a doctor who takes calls and offers answers to medical questions [...]
And You Wonder Why the Oscars Tanked
Posted in Miscellaneous Stuff on March 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Actress Marion Cotillard sparked a political row yesterday after accusing America of fabricating the 9/11 attacks. The 32-year-old French actress, who received an Oscar last month for her performance as singer Edith Piaf in La Vie En Rose, openly questioned the truth behind the terrorist atrocity in an interview broadcast on a French website. “I [...]
Hyphenated Americans
Posted in Miscellaneous Stuff on December 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Why I am not an Anglo-American, and won’t use the term African-American: Teddy Roosevelt once said that “The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot [...]
