Back when the cost of a fill-up was closer to a lunch check than the electric bill, I heard a (self-identified liberal) member of my family bitching about “the conservatives trying to take away our SUVs.” This gave me pause, for it’s generally on the political left that the loudest environmentalist voices are heard. “How … Read more
Remember that brilliant hostage rescue in Colombia a couple of weeks ago? Well, CNN is in a lather that part of the rescue team may have displayed Red Cross emblems, and that would be a violation of the Geneva Conventions. Well, hell, I guess the Colombian government has to take the hostages back now. I … Read more
A museum in Milwaukee just finished erecting a woolly mammoth skeleton, complete except for a rib and a few tail and foot bones. The bones are plenty cool, but I’m just blown away that they find entire animals preserved from time to time (the hair, the meat—everything). One of the most dramatic was a baby … Read more