Archive for January, 2009

Last fall, California voters approved, by a 52 to 47% “mandate,” Proposition 8, which was essentially the same as 2000’s Proposition 22, which was approved by the voters with a 61% victory, and then thrown out by the courts. The text of the proposition is very simple. In addition to keeping Marriage legally defined like... »

In the style of Elizabeth Alexander, an “American Poet” this post will be in the modern poetry style. When I was in school, we learned that a poem was a an organized series of words with meter and rhyme (except haiku, which is zen, not rhyme). Apparently, that is wrong. After careful examination,... »

Twenty-eight years ago today, Ronald Regan gave us his First Inaugural Address. In 1981, the economy of the US was suffering. Slow growth, high inflation, some of the highest interest rates ever joined rising unemployment to make a sad time in US economic history. In 1980, the prime rate was above 20 percent. Today’s... »

From the Mad Science team comes report of Another Stonehenge Discovered Under Lake Michigan? According to the report, it’s not unusual to find stuff at the bottom of Lake Michigan, because in the late ice age, it was dry. Lake Michigan averages 279 feet in depth, with a deepest measurement of 925 feet. Let’s suppose... »

Doing Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is to some degree flirting with robots, so certain caution must be exercised. Webmasters, especially beginners, may tend to forget about it, and make mistakes. Since such mistakes can lead to reduced or even ruined rating of the site, it is good not to make them in... »

It is my further increasingly strong theory that “Modern Medicine” hasn’t a clue about what happens to the human body. They treat symptom after symptom, until they can find the underlying disease. If a car mechanic did that, you would get pissed at them and not do business with them anymore. Suppose you went to... »

Finding a quality service provider that is cheap is a tedious task. Another turning point could be the number of email addresses provided by the cheap web hosting; all these need to be stored in a server so that a visit to your website is possible. It's not so difficult to find these services... »