What Exactly Just Happened?
Rod Rosenstein has apparently not resigned or been fired and is continuing in his role as Deputy Attorney General. He is...
Yearly Archive: 2018
History In the Balance
The moment of truth has come for the so-called moderate Republicans in the US Senate, specifically Corker, Flake, Collins, Murkowski, and,...
Natural Weekends – An Osprey Feasts
An osprey enjoying a fish dinner. Notice the crow in the upper right, looking for scraps.
Prelude To The Final Putsch?
Even for the standards of this Trumpian era, this has been a wild week. Remarkably, the old white men in the...
Legal, But Impossible – GOP's New Authoritarian Strategy
Under Leonid Brezhnev in the early 1970s, the Soviet Union introduced what was known as the “diploma tax”, which forced those...
Astronomy Adventure – Messier 15
Messier 15 is a globular cluster in the constellation Pegasus. It is among the oldest globular clusters, around 12 billion years...
Trump Will Take Us All Into The Abyss
Unlike Richard Nixon, Donald Trump will not fly off into the sunset. And, with the complicity of the corrupt, unaccountable, and...
Replaying Clarence Thomas, With A Twist
It looks like we are going to have a replay of the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings, 27 years on. The White...
Astronomy Adventure – Messier 30
Messier 30 (the fuzzy object in the middle of the photo) is a globular cluster in the constellation Capricorn. Not only...
