Aurora Borealis Seen from Orbit

Still photos shot by astronaut Don Pettit were made into a very cool video sequence of the what the aurora looks like from the International Space Station: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeAmKKrIVlc[/youtube] Dr. Pettit…

I want to pay more taxes

So do a whole bunch of other people who play poker online. The government is passing up hundreds of millions if not billions in revenue by not regulating and taxing…

It is Good To Know Rich People

That must be what Karen Weldin Stewart is thinking. Her 300 person Hotel DuPont Gold Ballroom swearing in party cost an estimated $10,000. Not too shabby. h/t Mike Mathews was…

The GOP’s Legacy.

This is what Republicans do to the country: They destroy it. From First Read: UNEMPLOYMENT RATE Then: 4.2% (Bureau of Labor Statistics, January 2001) Now: 6.7% (Bureau of Labor Statistics,…

Homeland Security

I swear I hate the term "Homeland Security." "Homeland" sounds too much like Motherland (Russia) or Fatherland (Nazi Germany). And given the way the department operated under Bush, those comparisions…