Off topic, except in a very large sense: Voted today, in a very special election. Proposition 1would increase property taxes to fund five "crisis centers" around King County (Seattle and mo… (View Post)

May the surgery you have chosen fix your problem soon, completely, and permanently. (View Post)

On Earth Day, I think it appropriate to honor an environmental hero, George H. W. Bush: "These things happened under Bush: The 1990 Clean Air Act, the strongest air pollution legislation in the … (View Post)

The second column by Daniels I would recommend was written in February: "It will be exponentially harder for humans to fly safely to Mars, establish a sustained presence and survive to return to… (View Post)

kle4 asked: "How many true Brits made it through the Anglo-Saxon domination?" From John McWhorter's Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: "By tracing mutations in mitochondrial DNA in w… (View Post)