Last week, I linked to an article about an experiment that created plasma much hotter than the center of the sun. Here's a picture of the machine that did it. The caption also includes this gem: During the unexpected powerful contained explosion, the Z machine released about 80 times the world's entire electrical power usage […]
I'm watching my Tivo'd broadcast of CNN's "Reliable Sources" from yesterday with Powerlineblog's John Hinderaker regarding the potential for criminal charges to be brought against The New York Times and The Washington Post for leaking of classified national security information -- the NSA surveillance program in the case of the Times and the once-secret detention […]
Wisconsin Sen. Russ Feingold has been mentioned as a possible Democrat contender for the presidency in 2008 -- if only for the fact that just about every senator looks in the mirror each morning and sees a future president. If that's the case, Feingold must've been attempting to woo the Bush Derangement Syndrome-suffering base of […]
The New York Times has a profile of Dr. Wafa Sultan, the psychologist whose tongue-lashing of Islam I linked to last week. The article is pretty good, but in an effort to write a compelling lede, the Times gets its facts wrong. Three weeks ago, Dr. Wafa Sultan was a largely unknown Syrian-American psychiatrist living […]
One of the logical necessities of the pro-choice movement is the de-humanification of the human fetus. A lot of moral angst and philosophical difficulties can be assuaged if a fetus is, as pro-choice advocates claim, nothing more than a clump of tissues. But is the view that a fetus is human and may experience what […]
Hoystory is on vacation from his day job this week and in town to visit him is his favorite (and only) niece. Needless to say, posting will occur when it occurs.
Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic was found dead in his cell earlier today. Good riddance to bad rubbish. The point I wanted to make in regard to this was how the international "justice" system works -- or rather, how it doesn't. Slobodan Milosevic has been on trial since February 2002, defending himself against 66 counts […]
London's Independent newspaper has an article online detailing the 20 most influential inventions/discoveries courtesy of the Muslim world. Click the link and take a look, but also notice the dates of the discoveries -- the most recent ones are in the 1700s. That shows you that there is a serious problem in Muslim society, and […]
A men's rights group has filed a lawsuit in federal court to exempt a father from having to make child-support payments for a kid he doesn't want. Personally, I find the idea that a man can just abandon his kid distasteful and outrageous, but this is what the feminist movement has brought us to, because […]
Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories have created plasma that exceeds 2 billion degrees Kelvin -- that's hotter than the center of the Sun, which is only 15 million degrees Kelvin. The best part? They don't know why it happened. The article says they don't know how they did it, but they know exactly how, because […]