
Pope Getting It Wrong on Galileo (Again)
It’s been said both within and without the Vatican that the encyclical from Pope Francis regarding the environment and climate ...

A Hacked World and the Chinese Takeaway
Following the revelation that private personnel data (including Social Security numbers) for 4 million federal employees was siphoned from government ...

God: She, He, Or Gender Fluid?
Some female priests of the Church of England are reportedly advocating that liturgical texts ought to be changed to sometimes ...

Advice on Tipping: Bono versus Les Moonves
Bella Haig is eighty years of age, and has been a server at Canter’s Deli in Los Angeles for fifty ...

I Like New York in June
52° (F), raw and raining is what it is on this June 2nd; the same as it was on June ...

A Rat in Need …
Researchers at Kwansei Gakuin University in Japan have been investigating whether rats are helpful to one another in times of ...

B.B. King Moves On
Rest in peace, B.B. King, passed on at the age of 89. He essentially did something very simple, but to ...

Frank Sinatra’s In the Wee Small Hours
Frank Sinatra passed away on May 14th, 1998. I recall thinking at the time that with Sinatra gone, all bets ...

Dog Flu is Spreading
The canine influenza A H3N2 virus kicked off its run in Chicago, that toddlin’ town, several months back, and has ...