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David Wilson
One of the tenets of science is that it is demonstrable, verifiable and repeatable. Science is not consensus — if science were consensus, our cosmology would not have a heliocentric Solar system, ala Copernicus and Galileo, but would still languish in a model where the Sun rotated around the Earth — that was the consensus.…
Remember the media’s effort to be permitted to photograph returning military caskets during the Bush administration? Remember how they forced themselves upon the families of the deceased, seeking to cover what they, the media, claimed was an important story? A story so important that even then-Senator Biden realized it? “”These young men and women are…
History, contrary to popular belief, does not really repeat itself… sadly, however, it frequently rhymes. Back in 1938 on this date, Neville Chamberlain, returning from Munich, proclaimed that this meeting had produced “peace in our times.” Now, President Obama, when not traveling to Copenhagen to collect accolades, continues in this grand tradition, believing that talking…
Another addition to the journals of the absurd… we’ve got a panhandler who was arrested for begging without a permit in North Carolina.
If I asked you to name a politician who has been accused “Hitlerite racism,” who would you name? David Duke, perhaps? Nope. (Hat tip, Kevin Rennie) Try “Jimmy Carter.” “Carter incensed Jackson during his 1976 presidential campaign when the former Georgia governor declared “there’s nothing wrong with ethnic purity being maintained” in a neighborhood. It…
You’ve heard of Russian Roulette, the game where you put on round in a revolver, give the cylinder a quick spin, put the gun to your head and pull the trigger, made famous in The Deer Hunter? A strange little “game” — theoretically, the odds are 5 in 6 that the gammer will fall on an…
Blame it on my misspent youth — “I remember Charlie’s Angels.” Farah Fawcett, Kate Jackson, Cheryl Tiegs, big hair, bad guys and a resonant voice emitting from a intercom system. In this modern era of “re-imaginings” and “remakes,” let me make a modest proposal… I present, for your entertainment pleasure, “Charlie’s Angles.” In a world…
When I find money, it usually is a matter of a couple bucks in a pair of jeans, or maybe a fistful of change in the sofa cushions… small amounts are easy to overlook. I’m certain this is fairly normal for most Americans. So… could do you think you “forget” a million dollar house?