Examples of Government Waste, Please

July 7, 2012

In my mind, there is a difference between boondoggles/earmarks/pork and government waste. The former are deliberate acts, the latter is …

Haven’t You Heard? Smoking Is Bad for You

July 6, 2012

An orangutan named Tori, currently a member of the Taru Jurug zoo in Solo, Indonesia has been a smoker for 10 …

July 4, 2012

The Higgs boson acquired the nickname “God particle” from the title of a book by Leon Lederman, The God Particle: …

July 3, 2012

All throughout the Cold War, the US and the USSR treated international affairs as a zero-sum game. With the dissolution …

July 2, 2012

There’s been a lot of hot weather east of the Rockies lately. I really feel for the folks in the …