Too dumb to understand aerodynamics, but smart enough to understand technology centuries beyond modern science.

So I’m watching a interesting program on the history of the meat packing and butchering industries on the History Channel. The program ends and a new one called “The UFO Hunters” starts. The topic of today’s episode is reverse engineering of alien technology. In short, they are claiming that the majority of major [...]

Patriotism

I consider myself a patriot. Not in the sense the right-wingers want us to think it. I do not wear American Flag pins, I don’t blindly follow the President, and I don’t see America as flawless. I am a Patriot by the true American sense, by the founding fathers sense. I believe in the rule [...]

The Bryan-College Station Eagle’s Father’s Day contest and dishonesty.

So for Father’s Day 2008, our local paper had a best father-child photo contest. Some facts about the winning photo. It was a grandfather-grandchild photo which is slightly outside the rules, but not so bad. The really bad part was the number of votes. 1.4 million. Yes a paper in a metro area of 150,000 [...]