“WIMPs” stands for weakly interacting massive particles. This comes from physicists speaking about clouds of subatomic particles left over from the Big Bang that could pass through the Earth like smoke through a screen door, as described in an article of Dennis Overbye in the New York Times about tests to produce evidence of these […]
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RSS feed for this sectionSave us from the madness – Barry Black on Government Shutdown
Rear Admiral Barry C. Black (RET) is the chaplain of the United States Senate who spoke these words in his morning invocations in the Senate at the beginning of the Government Shutdown: “May they remember that all that is necessary for unintended catastrophic consequences is for good people to do nothing.” Tuesday 10/01/13, the morning […]
The threatened Government Shutdown is reckless brinkmanship
I started to write about doing the right thing and realized that I should apply that thought to the present gridlock in Congress. Actually, deadlock is a better word. This dysfunctional brinkmanship is a disgrace that will lead to financial disaster. It is crazy. So, let me ask our Senators and our Representatives why they […]