Month: May 2007

In 1980 Stanford Ovshinsky patented a battery that was supposed to revolutionize the world. A battery that he knew could take almost unlimited charges and discharges, a battery that held far more energy at half the weight of...

Re-posted by Steven D to add the following video (hat tip to Brementown Musician): (cont.)Today is Mother’s Day, an essentially secular, commercialized holiday which promotes the right to shop by offering us one more...

There was once a time when civil and human rights came to grace the forward politics of the Democratic Left, which in the 1960s brought about the beginnings of change in racist American society. The legal changes brought about...

I needed these last three days at the campground.  No internet, no “news”, no phones and no clocks.  People trying to enjoy themselves are friendlier so I made no attempt to burst this proud father’s...

John McCain is droning on about staying in Iraq and as usual Tim Russert can only lob slow pitch softball  questions.   Let’s assume McCain is an honorable guy with well thought views held with principle: in...