Yawper

The yawps are less frequent these days.  I offer a few reasons, not because I think anyone eagerly awaits my opinions, but because I am very grateful for every reader, thus, wish to treat you with the utmost respect.  Besides, by writing this I suspect I will feel less guilt about the slower pace. Mostly, […]

Nikolai Kardashev, the deputy director of the Russian Space Research Institute, wrote a paper in 1963 that presented a classification system for assessing alien civilizations.  (Don’t worry if you never heard of it, I just stumbled across this article yesterday.)  Kardashev proposed three categories, each based on the amount of energy the aliens could command. […]

This year, I did not have time for my annual screed against Kwanzaa – food poisoning can really fill up one’s schedule. In lieu of a Yawp, I recommend you read, and re-blog, this Paul Mulshine piece for the New Jersey Star Ledger.

House Speaker John Boehner and his leadership team are being accused of purging conservatives from committees that guide fiscal policy.    This is a serious allegation.  Unfortunately, the truth may never be known. Representative Tim Huelskamp of Kansas said to Breitbart.com: “We’ve heard from multiple sources that someone walked in with a list of votes and […]

The description of the Hurricane Sandy aftermath coming from friends and family seems altogether different than the depiction arriving on my television.  I do not know what is wrong, but something in the Sandy coverage is amiss. Hurricane Sandy is the second most damaging storm in American history, at least in terms of economic impact.  […]