That typo for "black hole" just begs for some salacious puns about the seventh planet.

Rhod Island is often confused with Rhode Island. My apologies for ruining the Internet's reputation fro accuracy.

It is a little known fact that Rhod Island has the most uniform climate. That's because 79% of the state is indoors.

Wa-a-ay back in 1969, I climbed Mount Shasta in California. Just by dumb luck one of my photos shows the mega-slide to the northwest (not recognized as such until the 1980's). It wasn't until 2003 that I got back there again and looked at the mega-slide. No wonder they didn't recognize it until after Mt. St. Helens.…

The preferred term is "Inuit." I'll call people whatever they prefer to be called. Interestingly, a lot of the words indigenous groups use for themselves translate simply as "people" or "the people." That's not racist at all, is it?

I meditate. I transcend dental medication. (very old joke, I'll show myself out)

If you are not beating away supermodels with a broomstick in real life, you won't on line either. The internet may broaden your pool of people looking to socialize, but the quality won't change.

Definitely a no-smoking flight.

All large structures flex. That's part of the design. Even flatbed trucks have an upward bow when empty. The bed flexes down when loaded. Tall buildings move noticeably in the wind. And airplane wings flex. Nothing is infinitely rigid.

My son was about a year and a half old when we visited friends. There was a candle on the table next to me and he was mesmerized by the flame. He reached out a finger to touch it. I thought, I can let it happen when I'm able to control it, or he can learn some other time when nobody is around to monitor it. So he…

"Because in this universe, it's the men who bear the children."

One of the few bright spots from November 4.

So I have a billion dollars. Explain to me why I should use any of it to pay people whether they work or not. Explain to me why I should allow people even to vote on it.

That's like a room full of people where nobody is tallest. Somebody will always be richest. Preventing him brom being 1000 times richer than the next guy, that's doable.

"Providing a wage for a single person to live off of does not impact other people in any way."

"Intelligent Design" isn't really intelligent. The top down economy of the Soviet Union failed: free market economies work. You can buy a nut in Florida and find a bolt to fit it in Alaska because there are innumerable standardization agreements, all derived by the people who need them, and not created by central…

Khalkin Gol, the most important battle you never heard of. The Japanese military was split between a southern strategy, taking the oil fields of Burma and Indonesia, and a northern strategy, seizing Russia east of Lake Baikal. In August 1939, they probed the Russians in force to see if the Russians were really all…

12. The British push on in the Dardanelles. They tried to force the Dardanelles in February 1915 and turned back in the face of intense fire. NOBODY beat the British fleet in those days. After the War, they learned that the Turks were nearly out of ammunition. A few minutes more and they'd have forced the straits and…

It's fascinating how World War II keeps killing people. In the 60's, most books said 20-30 million dead. Now it's 60-70 million. At that rate, World War II will have killed everyone within a few centuries.

An era of utter ignorance. All people had achieved 2000 years ago was the discovery of agriculture, writing, geometry, metallurgy, shipbuilding, heavy construction, glass, steel, and concrete. Bunch of stupid savages.