Rants, musings, and other general purpose blog entries reflecting the thoughts du jour.
Knowing how bought by special interests it takes someone to get elected, Member of Congress will probably never be one of those jobs where the officeholder and honesty would be considered in the same sentence without some sort of punch line. But gutting the one organisation that is supposed to at least pretend to enforce some sort of ethics standards on Congress as one of the first acts would seem to send the message loud…
Dick Clark's on the TV behind me, Grandpa's piano and a Cuba Libre is in front of me... Hou'oli makahiki hou! Happy New Years 2017...we can't see the back of 2016 soon enough if you ask me!
According to the BBC and confirmed through other sources, Nico Rosberg retires from F1 with immediate effect after winning his maiden World Driver's Championship. Wow! Did. Not. See. That. Coming. At. All. You've got to give him mad respect for making the best of having better reliability this past season and pushing himself and Lewis to a thrilling conclusion of the season. And then being willing to bin it after winning the trophy to concentrate…
Katie, Nick, and I just watched a very brightly lit International Space Station pass right over my house! Hope they enjoyed the sunset…it was a pretty nice one this evening! :) Roscosmos had a Progress cargo ship failure today after launch from Baikonur…premature separation and third stage failure at about 120 miles altitude destroying the spacecraft completely. It's mission was to resupply the ISS…next supply ship launches from Japan on 09 Dec and the stores…
Tom Stiglich / www.tomstiglich.com
Mr President-Elect, Your favourite late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia actually voted the correct way on Texas v Johnson which struck down criminal penalties for flag burning as protected speech/protest under the First Amendment. May I kindly point out that you might want to consider making it a habit of engaging your brain well before you decide to speak or tweet? Especially before looking like a complete doofus completely incapable of grasping irony (the polite…
Cats - Canes at the PNC ended up 3-2 in favour of the good guys with three goals in about 3:30 in the second period. Panthers head coach Gerard Gallant gives his usual post-game presser and then after that bit of business is done is informed by the team that he and his assistant have been relieved of their duties and their current GM and former Canes assistant Tom Rowe is taking over behind the…
