In recent weeks, I wrote a two-part article series, interviewing a local astronomer about the new James Webb Telescope. It sits 100 million miles out in space, and, in all, the project price tag was $10 billion. While I’m all … Continue reading →
The big news this week is the persistent “heat dome” over America’s south, and record shattering high temperatures, wildfires, et. al, in Europe. I recall traveling during the summer in America’s south a number of years ago and seeing a … Continue reading →
standing in solidarity with abortion protestors in Ocala, Fla. …photo by Joe Today, “Roe v Wade” was overturned. It’s been 50 years in coming, and the result of accumulative prayer, fasting, pro-life advocacy… During our travels, I talked in some … Continue reading →
I just wrote a newspaper article about the St. Bernadette statue coming to one of our local area churches as part of a 40-town tour of the U.S. this summer. One of the volunteers at the church said that, not … Continue reading →
The average price of gas in 1966 in America (the year this Mustang was manufactured) was 32 cents a gallon, the equivalent of $2.20 today. The average price of gas in America this week just topped $5 a gallon. Your … Continue reading →
I was reading some of this book this afternoon… After dropping the atomic bombs on Japan, the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy was set up by Congress. [There was already an Atomic Energy Commission.] These bodies oversaw such things as … Continue reading →
Again… This time it was at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. There were 19 children killed in the mass shooting, as well as two adults. Biden talked last night afterward and said it was “…time to stand up to … Continue reading →
I just wrote a newspaper article about Maysville, Ohio, pop.: not much. It’s just a small cluster of homes that are loosely configured around an intersection on Rte. 309 here. But Maysville wasn’t always like that. In the mid-1800s, it … Continue reading →
President Biden laid out his plan for dealing with rising inflation today. And while some of it seemed measured and well thought out, a significant portion of it was akin to: rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. Biden, for one, … Continue reading →
Okay, if (some) of the scientists/meteorologists are right, global warming looms like a scary doomsday scenario. First World lifestyle changes would, indeed, be good, whether the threat is, ultimately, real, or not. Stay with me on this… To curb CO2 … Continue reading →