Panic in the Streets

One of my favorite things about Nashville is our ability to overreact to just about any weather pheonomenon.  When it snows, which it does here on occassion, though hardly very deep, the Butcher and I like to go to the grocery store just to watch people buying five gallons of milk and ten loaves of [...]

Here’s Something I Wonder about Black Holes

Okay, I’m walking across the universe and I skip a little too close to a black hole.
And I start, if I’m understanding correctly, to swirl down the black hole like water down a drain.

And so on

Until I’m gone.
Over at Slate, they have a more science-y description.  But my question is this: isn’t it possible that, [...]

My Morning Palin Thought

Read this.
America, last night we saw the person running for Vice President of the United States try to cute her way out of Charlie Gibson’s questions.
America, forget not blinking–when she didn’t know, she winked.
This, America, is why we still need feminism, because, when the chips are down, women need a stronger skill-set than “just flirt [...]