The Certified Skeptic

While driving home from Wisconsin this past weekend, Dar noticed the bright bluish-grayish flickering light in many of the windows of homes and apartments along the highway… the glow of television. An interesting discussion followed, always a good thing on a long drive.
The primary purpose of commercial television programming is to make profit. It […]

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Cubans sneak ashore during U.S. security drill
Thu Mar 8, 2007 4:57 PM ET
By Jane Sutton
MIAMI (Reuters) - While hundreds of U.S. law enforcement agents intercepted imaginary Cuban migrants during a massive training exercise in south Florida, two boatloads of actual Cubans sneaked ashore on Miami Beach on Thursday.
Boaters dropped off 21 Cuban migrants […]

Our little town of Geneva recently concluded the consideration of an indoor smoking ban. Unfortunately it was voted down, mostly because a small number of vocal bar owners bitched, whined, and brought up all kinds of red-herrings — for instance: shoppers won’t be able to navigate the sidewalks near bars because all the smokers will […]

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A bit of news caught my eye this morning. We, the US, are planning to install a missile shield in eastern Europe. It appears it’s designed to protect Europe from medium range missiles that could be fired from Iran, North Korea, or other “rogue states”. Furthermore, it seems the Germans, French, and […]

As an offset to the little affairs of our daily lives, I recommend looking around the website for the Cassini Saturn Mission. These pictures are positively stunning, offering views of Saturn never seen before.
Link to Cassini-Huygens Saturn Mission
Factoid: Saturn is the only planet in the solar system that is less dense than water.
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Alright — a serious entry today. I’m not feeling particularly light-hearted.
What prompts my thoughts today are recent reports from the Middle East, Afghanistan and Iraq to be specific, about a couple more suicide bombers. One blew himself up at a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a new emergency room at a hospital in Afganistan. […]