The Year 1918 Brought Us Much More Than a World War A newcomer to Louisiana, I learned hurricanes are like tornadoes had been in the Great Plains’ Tornado Alley I had moved from. Then Rita, Katrina and the National Weather Service taught me that t...
We will vote for a president, and get eight electors hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,” wrote Thomas Jefferson in the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence of July 4, 1776. Other truths are less self-...
Lance Armstrong and the Tour de France Bike Race In the early 20th century, a French publisher launched a magazine, “L’Auto.” To boost circulation, he started a bicycle race in 1903 to have something interesting to write about.
The bicycle race, ...
Regarding basic tools that everyone should have We and the primates are the only ones on this planet who use tools. According to scientists it’s a sign of intelligence. Except for us humans, the tools are basic, like a stick to poke something ed...
YouTube, you're fired. I have no more use for you. Unless... I’m tired of wasting my time on YouTube. I quit. Unless, of course, I don’t. Some videos are helpful and others are fun.
I like videos with new ways to do things. Other videos offer ways to fix or ...
Teddy Roosevelt, the fourth man at Mount Rushmore The 60-foot-tall carved images of four former United States Presidents, Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson and Theodore Roosevelt look out from Mount Rushmore, carved there by the Danish American sculp...
Will money really buy politicians? Or maybe rent them? The part of American history that deals with our presidents inevitably leads to how they were chosen, and the forces in the background that finance them. Sometimes this unseen component is more imp...
Spending an Evening With the U.S. Presidents Presidents are not always very smart. History is rife with bad decisions, mistakes and broken promises. As citizens, we must see clearly those whom we have chosen to lead us. Our future demands it....
Is Woodrow Wilson running for president again? I am writing this in the pre-dawn hours of September 11, a day important to the history of our country. It’s also a day filled with unanswered questions, according to the Architects & Engineers for...
Everything you need to know about astrology Everyone needs something to believe in.
Following is an account of one of my adventures looking for exactly that. While I learned more than I really wanted to about the subject, I learned a couple...
About LFTRs, those promising liquid fluoride thorium reactors Last week I wrote about Japan, in the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami that severely damaged three nuclear power plants. Japan’s citizenry have been motivated to seek alternate energy like w...
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