Posts under ‘Politics & Religion’

A cancer researcher recently discovered he can burn saltwater and potentially use its energy to drive an engine. As seen in this news footage, he uses radio waves to separate hydrogen from the salt water, then simply uses a spark to ignite the hydrogen. It reminds me somewhat of the Brown’s Gas energy debate, but [...]

There’s a lot of commotion about dangerous products coming out of China lately, and now everyone’s in an uproar. Why is everyone so surprised?
We’ve been dealing with it in the IT industry for a while. Bad capacitors on motherboards, bad laptop batteries, and more. This is what happens when you go to the lowest bidder. [...]

Ever wonder where George W. really came from?

I’ve got a three day weekend and I don’t wanna know nothin’.
I don’t care that Kevin Bacon’s new flick Death Sentence sucks ass. I don’t care about David Beckham’s knee. I don’t care whether or not Tony Snow may have cancer. There’s no pro football this weekend, I haven’t watched the races lately, and I’m [...]

Every so often we see reports on the news of a big gunfight where maybe a couple of US soldiers are killed but enemy casualties are ten times or more. I often wondered how that can be. Is it superior training? Superior equipment? A little of both?
Maybe it’s that and because the enemy fights like [...]

The potential tobacco tax I mentioned previously is one step closer to reality as the Senate recently passed the bill that would expand health coverage for children. It passed with such a wide margin that it’s expected a veto would do no good.
I’m all for better health care for children (and adults for that matter), [...]

John Roling is reporting the Senate is considering a new tobacco tax that will increase the tax cap on cigars to as high as $10 per cigar. Thus a good $5 cigar could cost as much as $15, effectively extinguishing the habit for folks like John and myself forever.
This is going to be insult to [...]

For the first time, scientists have confirmed the existence of water vapor on an extrasolar planet. This is huge news as water is a requirement for life (as we know it) and confirming water exists on other planets would be an important element in claiming life can exist on other planets.
There’s probably no life on [...]

The Midget tends to come up with conversation topics at random. Today, as he and I are sitting out front while I’m enjoying a cigar, he starts asking about God’s law. Presumably, this is something he’d been told at preschool (this program is housed in a Lutheran church) and he’s just now thinking about it [...]

I’ve had this pain in my leg since December, so last month I started going to the bone doctor. It’s helping and all, but as he goes through the various routines, I started thinking about how some of these devices seem to be based on medieval torture devices.
For example, I start my session on this [...]