Crossposted at Dailykos.com This has been a very interesting past few days. The drive from the Bluegrass country to here was dreadful, with rain and wind almost every step of the way. My right shoulder blade still is tense from it. But that is no matter. I could not get to sleep tonight, and it [...]
Continue reading about The Lightness of a Thankful Heart 28 November 2008
Crossposted at Dailykos.com This was inspired by a comment by darthstar on a diary by Nex Horus. Here is the scenario: the campaign plane went down, with no loss of life nor serious injury, in a remote part of the lower 48, maybe, say Wyoming. This is purely fantasy, but I attempt to include talking [...]
Continue reading about LOST: The McCain Aircraft Crash Fanstasy
Crossposted at Dailykos.com “The only bad coin is one I don’t have” (Translator, 2008). Actually, that is not really true. There are good and bad coins. The properties that constitute “goodness” differ depending on whether a coin is intended for circulation or for commemorative or bullion use. However, some of these characteristics are common to [...]
Continue reading about A Primer on US Coins #6: Good and Bad Coins
Crossposted at Dailykos.com (Sneak preview for Politicook members, one of the advantages of being on this site). The United States is a recent entry in bullion coin production. England started producing bullion coins in 1489! The US started in 1986 with the Silver and Gold Eagles, with nominal face values of $1 up to $50. [...]
Continue reading about A Primer on US Coins #5: Bullion Coins
Crossposted at Dailykos.com I swear, is there a single leader in the Republican Party that is not just nuts? The Republicans in Wisconsin have their panties in a wad over a literature textbook used in the eighth grade in some schools. It turns out that the text has an essay by (at the time of [...]
Continue reading about Pathetic People #4: Reince (“Cut out the Pages”) Priebus
Crossposted at Dailykos.com By now we have all heard of, if not seen clips, of the really pathetic person of the hour, Michele Bachmann. Her words reached the heigths of idiocy last Friday on the Tweety show, and Tweety played her like a Stradivarius. I have to give Tweety some credit, he seems to be [...]
Crossposted at Dailykos.com Chirality comes from the Greek root ?????, meaning “hand”. Most people outside of us chemistry wanks do not know that many organic molecules have the property of “handedness”, meaning that they come in two varieties, a “right-handed” and a “left-handed” one. Actually, it is bit more complex, and this will become clear [...]
Crossposted at Dailykos.com This diary is the result of a comment thread from this diary by plf515 Thursday. We got to kicking around the thought of whether Kipling was actually an imperialist. I maintain that he was not in the sense that he approved of armed takeover of foreign countries, and some historians agree with [...]
Crossposted at Dailykos.com I will admit that I have a love/hate relationship with MSNBC. Olbermann and Maddow are wonderful, Shuster is OK, and even Tweetie has his moments. On the other hand, the vile Scarborough and Buchanan are regulars. But one of the most pathetic and disgusting guests that appears regularly is Brad Blakeman. He [...]
Crossposted at Dailykos.com I hardly ever watch Fox the so called news network, but did because the old man and the tart were in an interview with the despicable Sean Hannity. Since the show is purportedly called Hannity and Colmes, I wondered about Colmes. He is a shill, and even more despicable than Hannity.