Month: March 2016

Tell a lie often enough and it might become believable. A lie travels around the world before the truth starts. There was peace in my lifetime. The last is something I can say occurred in my lifetime, but it was only for a few months at a time, and it was so long ago most…

I now remember why I love Colorado.  Sure there may be a three foot blizzard with twenty foot deep drifts.  It might be twenty below zero and the wind howling above one hundred miles per hour.  But, when it quiets down, all is peaceful and quiet. The air is so clear, you can see one…

— Dorothy Parker While sitting watching the dreary Beltway weather forecast something popped into my head. What are the political implications of a Vanity Fair cover? Specifically that of a Republican woman? A woman who had previously changed her name, and not because she married? Oh my have I heard crickets from the very people…

The constant bleed of NSA and Syria, with death in Afghanistan on page 2, what does the average American think is going on in the world? Or should it be something like has the faucet flow of heavy water drowned America? I watched the Broncos beat up the Ravens last night and into this morning.…

– General George Washington 1776 I am still having a problem with a strange Republican way of thinking. Their world is all about fear and hate — that has been well established during these terrible years. Fear efficient light bulbs, hate specific phrases or terms, such as “climate change.” Fear non-lily white skin tones, hate…

— Mary Shafer, NASA (1989) [avatar user=”blue bronc” size=”thumbnail” align=”left”]Blue Bronc[/avatar]Well. After a couple years of vapid nothings we are in the countdown to a launch.  Not just any launch, but a full-fledged billion dollar explosion of power dollars launch. Am I surprised at the multi-day warning to this announcement?  No.  In fact I am…