6 Alien Worlds Orbiting a Star in Strange — but Precise — Harmony . . . DanS January 25, 2021 2:46 pm (Space/Science)
“...hard to care about bootprints sunk in soil 238,900 miles away...” DanS January 25, 2021 2:44 pm (Space/Science)
Possible Cause of Arecibo Observatory Telescope Collapse . . . DanS January 25, 2021 2:39 pm (Space/Science)
E.T. Signal from Proxima Centauri? A Conversation with Breakthrough Initiatives . . . DanS January 25, 2021 2:31 pm (Space/Science)
Neutrons’ ‘Evil Twins’ May Be Crushing Stars into Black Holes . . . DanS January 25, 2021 2:28 pm (Space/Science)
Ballad for a departed President ER January 20, 2021 5:52 pm (CurrentEvents)
Yo Podrock Vitruvius January 20, 2021 3:14 pm (GeekSpeak)
Q-anon trash in critical condition after being bitch-slapped by reality RL January 20, 2021 2:37 pm (CurrentEvents)
And now the long painful task of picking up the pieces begins... RL January 20, 2021 9:36 am (CurrentEvents)
Sigh... They just don't make Nazis like they used to... RL January 20, 2021 9:00 am (CurrentEvents)
Democracy is just so…inefficient.
Politicians respond to the incentives created by our political marketplace. The result does not produce a well-functioning democracy. Despite many reasons for caution—the words George W Bush foremost among them—I’m becoming more of a believer in an imperial presidency in domestic policy. Congress seems too screwed up and fragmented to address our most pressing problems.