From an old friend (pictured at left): On Monday evening my daughter and her roommate, who live in Center City (Philadelphia), walked the short walk from their apartment to the Art Museum to watch the 4th of July celebratory fireworks …
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A Powerful Voice for the Freedom of Ideas
Stephen King: If Penguin Random House gets its way, it will soon own Simon & Schuster—leaving only four major publishers in an industry that once had dozens. In a country built on free press, where Common Sense helped launch the Revolutionary War …
Making Sense of the FBI Raid
We need to admit that we live in strange times. Yet that doesn’t make Trump’s torrent of conflicting excuses for being in possession of stolen classified documents any easier to swallow.
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Happy Birthday, John Venn
Set theory and its representation by Venn Diagrams have been around long before I was a boy in 6th grade math class, and we spent probably a month on this discipline that was considered very important at the time. For …
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Let’s Make Teaching as Unattractive a Profession As Possible
Virtually no response to the epidemic of school shootings, exposure to disease, greatly restricted methods of teaching and discipline, narrowed curricula, book bans, forced unpaid overtime, as well as lousy pay, have all teamed up to create a huge teacher …
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Reality Winner Did Four Years in Prison for Misappropriating ONE Document
We need to keep in mind that Reality Winner isn’t beloved by tens of millions of Americans. Trump leads a large group of hateful morons who will go bananas if the justice system treats their hero the same way it …
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In Hot Pursuit
Some of these memes that allude to OJ Simpson’s drive down the 405 Freeway in Los Angeles are better than others. This is a good one; I especially like “karma” in the back.
America At War with Itself
Thanks to cartoonist Adam Zyglis for this gem. The international community looks on with a mixture of pity and contempt as the United States wrestles with fascism. Will Trump, still supported by tens of millions of voters and a large …
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Why Electric Vehicles Have Only One Gear
When it comes to the transmissions in their cars, almost all Americans prefer automatics, and increasingly few of our millennials even know how to drive standard (manual) transmissions.
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Wind Turbines on EVs and Why That’s a Bad Idea
Here’s an article on EVs that explores the topic in the title above. The fellow admits that he’s not an engineer or a physicist but observes, correctly, that attaching a wind turbine to the top of an EV and using …
