Creationist, Young Earth Creationist, Intelligent Design and all the others of that ilk are truly blind to the wonder and majesty of the universe. They don't have to wonder, question, explore because they have what they believe are all the answers. I don't have all the answers, I will never have all the answers, the…

Duh, How could I forget that one.

Couldn't agree more.

How about The Equalizer seasons 2 and 3. Season one has been out for several years.

I maintain my membership in the Illuminati for the discounts on travel, movies and restaurants. I don't like to attend the meetings though, all those conspiracies are just too hard to keep up with.

I watched Grave of the Fireflies last Christmas, not exactly a Christmas movie. There is a live action version out there already, Hotaru no haka made in 2005. Except it takes the point of view of the aunt, sort of a villain in the anime, and tries to make her a more sympathetic character.

When my dad married my mother he was deported to Bermuda (he had a UK Passport) for violating his student visa. He had to re-apply for a resident alien visa to be let back in.

I have a soft spot for this one designed by a real rocket scientist.

Ah but I already did.

Popular fiction likes to portray scientists as either bumbling, doddering fools or as malevolent, malicious tyrants. Either way they are almost always shown as single minded in the pursuit of their goals and damn all else. The science itself is either depicted as pure evil or gone wrong somehow in a way unexpected by…

I have seen 11 of these movies, oddly none of the ones from the 21st century. There have been several occasions where I have tried to power my way through Alphaville and I have just not been able to do it. The last time I tried, about a year ago, I fell asleep.

I would read Jack the Giant Killer to my kids when they were little. Their favorite story was when Jack challenges the Welsh giant to a porridge eating contest and then tricks him into slashing open his own stomach. I don't think this will be near as violent as the stories.

The Up Goer Five (Saturn V) could launch 118 tons into orbit. The ISS has a mass of 450 tons and took 27 shuttle launches and 5 proton rockets to get all of the components into orbit. Do the math.

Of course abortions are about money. If you check the statistics the majority of the women who seek an abortion in the first place already have children it not they don't want children it's they can't afford more. If you want to prevent abortions first better sex education, second easier access to contraceptives,…

The wind doesn't always blow, the sun doesn't always shine, you don't always need peak output from your power plants, and you can't 'store' electricity. Historically the only ways to 'store' electricity has been to turn it into chemical energy with batteries (compact but very inefficient), or potential mechanical…

It's not the calories we are trying to avoid, it is the type of calories.

Remember that abortion predates Roe v. Wade:

Many good ones were taken so how about Derek Flint.

With the amount of traveling I do with my granddaughter (she's a competitive martial artist) we eat out a lot. We try to avoid fast food and stick with sit down places and none of us drink soda. The closest she gets is unsweet tea but we try to steer her towards milk.

I had always believed that preventing unwanted pregnancies in the first place would reduce the number of abortions and recent studies have prove me right. Education access to contraceptives, better economic opportunities for women and families all help to reduce abortions. If we were to put more effort into improving…