it’s terrible when the knick isn’t mutual, and the left won’t get on a plane and stay out of sight, out of mind, out of time in a place where leaving is an…
On March 16, 1751, 275 years ago today, James Madison was born at Belle Grove Plantation, his mother's family home in Port Conway, Virginia. Often called the “Father of the Constitution,” Madison was also the…
Indeed, but you can never leave. Messrs. Henley and Fry were on to something with that sublime turn of phrase in the little song inspired by goings-on inside the once-iconically pink hotel on Sunset Boulevard…
The compact disc (CD), a 1.2 mm-thick polycarbonate roundel 120 mm in diameter, can hold up to 74 minutes of stereo audio, roughly 650 MB, on a single spiral track. It is read by a…
A turned hem in the darkness, under the Dog Star. I don’t need to sing what I hear to the she likes the dusk under frost bit, writhing vines, but to freeze…
Is today’s officially sanctioned holiday greeting to one's fellow citizens in middle North America “Happy Presidents’ Day”? And what, if anything (except “I’m sorry”), needs to be said to global neighbors about the goings-on this…
In 1705, the English astronomer Edmond Halley published data on 24 comet trajectories. His calculations revealed that comets observed in 1531, 1607, and 1682 followed nearly identical paths, indicating they were the same comet returning…
