Random Thoughts

If  Airlines were armies, United and Lufthansa would be invincible. Their meals betray it -you know, the stronger an army, the worse the food it distributes. I am just out of a flight from…

Happy. punctuation day; everyone!1 1 Technically the 6th National Punctuation Day was yesterday, but I was still recovering from tuberculosis/black plague, so I'm a day late.

"I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einsteins' brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops". Stephen…

A recent LiveScience article argues that part of the problem in health care costs is the poor dietary and health habits those in the U.S. have.   "Americans get sick more. Why? Some argue that…

Are plants really demonic oxygen stealing crooks that will sneak up at night and kill us all? Can plants kill you by simply respiring? This is what I want to look at with this post. I’m sure you are…

Mary Travers, of Peter, Paul and Mary, died of complications from her leukemia treatment at age 72. You probably know the 1960s folk trio's songs, If I Had a Hammer, Lemon Tree, John Denver's Leaving…

In keeping with Hank's recent article (and the fact that he's terminally obsessed with Greek mythology), we've developed something new for our good readers / authors here to use: The "Which Character…

I recently heard a news report about the murder victim at Yale University, Annie Le.  This was followed by a cacophony of calls to change our culture of violence against women and to bring…

There is a new article on LiveScience "Scary: Fake Videos Alter Perception of Reality"that reports some findings related to faked videos and the responses to them. This particular article brings up…

It’s a rainy morning here in the New York City area — not at all like the bright, cloudless day of eight years ago. Of those affected, back then, by the events of the day, many were friends and co-…