A Tokamak Fusion Reactor   Some news has been circulating in my circles which has just cemented for me how bad it is in DC with the current liberal Democrat control (or lack of therein) of the Federal Government. I have never seen a more confused or incoherent lot in my life. They put on a facade o...

Barnes & Noble Review officially publishes my review of Blake Bailey’s excellent new Cheever: A Life on Thursday, but I have the go-ahead to link now. John Updike, in his last-ever piece of book criticism, characterized the biography as a “heavy, dispiriting,” and dull read, b...

Normal 0 I went to this clinic with this coupon code my friend gave me. They gave me a free gram of purple kush. The place is kinda hard to find and the parking sucks but the gram was worth it. If anybody is in Southern cali you got to stop by this place. And the code to get the gram is INTGRAM. The...

I turn again to my trusty engineering friends after reading an earlier thread here, the difference between a screw and a bolt, checking out the Bolt Science Glossary, scanning through many pages of wikipedia and scouring countless manufacturer's web-sites. What the heck is a CAPscrew .............

In ‘Jews and Chinese Food‘, Rory continues her “casual dating” of Logan, much to the distaste of Marty. Oh, Marty! How many of us wish that you had spoken up to Rory about your feelings. I’m not sure if Rory was capable as seeing Marty as more than a friend, but I feel ...

I have a Dell Axim x51. It is a great PDA. I have had no problems with it until now. i am trying to sync with my Dell Dimension 8110 with a Celeron D processor running Win XP home SP 3. I am getting this error when trying to sync with ActiveSync 4.5: "Critical Communications Services have faile...

One common theme starting to percolate through the electorate is the resistance to any plans to bail out homeowners who got in over their heads (or worse, lied on their applications) before doing anything for those who have been responsible and keeping up with their mortgage payments. As I proposed ...

  This is part one of a three part post title “ Clowns to the left of me , Jokers to the right , stuck in the middle with you (America) “. The current economic crisis is the result of a brewing political crisis that has been boiling for decades. We are here today thanks to the hyper-par...

  This is part one of a three part post title “ Clowns to the left of me ,  Jokers to the right ,  stuck in the middle with you  (America)”. Today we have a delicious story of irony regarding the GOP infighting and how it is reshaping the conservative movement. David Frum, who led th...

This is part one of a three part post title “ Clowns to the left of me ,  Jokers to the right ,  stuck in the middle with you  (America)”. False choices. That is what has allowed the hyper-partisans (driven by the greedy media which will not spend one nano-second of air time or one pa...