Apr 232012
 

When I was growing up in that toxic waste dump of a town and trying to get what passed for an education, there was at the time, a big push on the national level to get training in the sciences. The space program was just starting to come on the scene and there was a [...]

Apr 222012
 

I grew up in a typical small town in central Pennsylvania that was known for two things…loose wimmen and a very bad smell. Surprisingly, the bad smell wasn’t all due to the loose wimmen, although they played a large part in it I’m sure. No, the smell came from the largest industry in the town [...]

Mar 142012
 
Another brilliant idea from Congress...but then, ain't they all?...

One night out in the American west, in September of 1870, a group of explorers were sitting around a campfire discussing the wonders they had seen over the course of their expedition. They had viewed vast forests, towering mountains, waterfalls, and other natural beauties that had never been seen by modern man. The conversation turned [...]