Collapsing Bridges
The odds are 1 in 4 million that you’ll be on a bridge when it collapses at some time during your life.
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Painting the world white
Here’s a novel idea for putting the brakes on global warming: Ask everyone in the world to paint their roofs white. U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu raised the idea last week at a conference in London, noting that the proposal, first put forth by researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California, would reflect enormous amounts of sunlight off the […]
Read moreCartoon – Mad SalutesParenting In the 90’S
Cartoon – First Things First
Arthur C. Clarke Quote – Venture Into The Impossible
“The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.” – Arthur C. Clarke
Read morePoem – Salvation Days (By R.T. Castleberry)
In the turn from wide to narrow streets seams in the street shudder my tires, loosed leaves flutter through the fog. Police on patrol secure the corner the five-columned church commands. Blocked by brush-wide blurs of contrails, the sun settles behind the storm. There’s a death in my house, a dearth of charity, a chastened child unwrapping his […]
Read moreCartoon – Modern Day Santa Snacks
Victor Borge Quote – The Shortest Distance Between Two People
“A smile is the shortest distance between two people.” – Victor Borge
Read moreHelen Hayes Quote – Forget About Success
“Always aim for achievement, and forget about success” – Helen Hayes
Read moreChipping away at our freedoms
Poland is giving up the liberties it fought so hard to gain, said Jacek Zakowski. There was “no coup, no fanfare, no lofty ideas or slogans.” But slowly and incrementally, our own democratically elected government has been passing law after law restricting our freedoms. In the past six months, we’ve granted the government permission to track us through our cellphone […]
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