Today's science lesson ladies and gents is that landing a spacecraft on another celestial body is a very difficult thing to do.  Even on the one closest to us.  Our Moon.  When a country pulls it off it's a...
It finally happened, it finally happened, it finally happened. I'm slightly mad   Queen   I'm going slightly mad I'm sitting here listening to the coverage on MSNBC of Putin asking China for military equipment to send into Ukraine, and I still...
Rod Serling was able to write Twilight Zone because as a survivor of WWII, he had cultivated two abilities, one the ability to see how the extraordinary co-exists right beside the ordinary and life can change on a dime,...
I'm going to do something I seldon, if ever do. I'm going to make a prediction. By New Years Day next year, Vladimir Putin will no longer be the Russian dictator. And before you start shitting all over me,...
Ya know, the more time I've spent covering Putin in first the lead up to this crisis, and now the war itself, I have learned by necessity than I ever wanted to know. And in doing so, I discovered...
OK, Now I'm starting to get pissed off. I don't know what Vlad the Imp is playing at, but it sure isn't successful warfare. Winston Churchill was a wartime Prime Minister, but he listened to his military advisors and...
Here we are, starting the third week of Russia's unprovoked invasion into Ukraine, and nothing so far has really surprised me. As I have written previously, Putin waited too long, lost his edge of surprise, lost his bullshit excuses to...
Say what you will about the criminal, senseless and cruel Russian invasion of Ukraine, there have been some benefits to their malfeasance, a nation united behind a brave young visionary leader, a lately noteworthy weakening of Putin’s iron grip...
Joy Ann Reid just reported that the Russian stock market lost almost 50% of its total value, one of the largest losses in a single day in history. Then she went on to report that Putin and his oligarchs combined account...

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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. In fact, it's the only thing that ever has.

— Margaret Mead