Fact-Dropping

At Home with the Schleimanns

I don't know what your problem is Electra. You're so selfish. Look at your sister Iphigenia. She'd give her life for her mother and father!

No Little Man Required

I just got off the toilet after spending a good half hour reading the story of the first handheld calculator -- entirely mechanical.

This could be NEAT

The spring could be a fine season for astronomy indeed.

First in Flight Controlled Glider Flight
An amazing fact that most Californians don't know: the first controlled glider flight in history took place at Otay Mesa...

Hooray for Hollywood

One of the signs of late autumn in Southern California is the eruption of the red berries of the Toyon bush, also known as the Christmas Berry or Hollywood. This is the plant that gave the subdivision its name.

Southern California Wildfires Explained

Now that the hills are denuded, we face the winter with trepidation. Those whose houses survived the strange hopscotching of the blaze now watch the clouds.

Cryptobiotic Crust

It's an unnerving feeling to realize that if you blunder off the trail in a desert park or just about anywhere, one footstep can destroy a population rivalling Manhattan.

The Bible: Anthology or Word of God?

When the church councils put together the Bible, they included everything that they thought would help set the context for the ministry of Christ.

The Lesson of 1889

In the late 1800s, Californians voted to bring in a government which drew its support from those who wanted to deny Chinese citizens the right to vote.

Scarey

We're a nation which moves not when we have thought things through, but when things happen and when our leaders tell us what we want to hear to be able to go along with abridgements of the Constitution and war.

Hiroshima Day and the International Dateline

I guess arguing over whether the fifth or the sixth is like arguing over when it is Easter. Tell you what: I'll do it on the fifth and you do it on the sixth and we'll say it is every bit as holy for one to choose the one and the other the other

America's Thebans

The voters who support Bush and say that because he is the president he can tell no lies -- because when he speaks, they accept his reversals of fact as truths --are America's Thebans.

Elephant Mutters

I learned that elephants speak in very low voices, lower than our hearing can discern, but audible to them at distances of up to four miles.

Thirty Five Percent

35% of those who were abused as children end up in prison for violent crimes.

The Battle of San Pietro

Of San Pietro, it seems, little is written because almost no one lived to tell about it.

Tasting the Territory

There can't be more than four square inches of skin on my toe. Almost sounds like Fortinbras fighting for less than an acre of land

Just wait until you get the rebate!
Your tax cut is going to be less than $20. Excited still? Trickle down from halfast at After Hours Pub....

Abortion History

There's a lesson in politics here.

San Onofre 2

Holy Jim Canyon 1

Right and Left

From the perspective of God, facing them as He would a congregation, the Democrats are on the Right Hand, sitting with the Son.

Mexico City 15

Weighty Affairs

Could it become the fashion of the future to travel places where TB remains at large as a weight cure?

Parings

Do you recall my mentioning that a rhino's horn is made of the same stuff as a fingernail? The thought occurs to me that I could save my parings, grind them up, and sell them to desperate Asian businessmen.

"It's the war of Northern Aggression"

To be a Southerner does not require adherence to the neo-confederate's politically correct litmus test.