TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee")

I probably should travel more, because I've never seen an elevator panel like this.  The rationale is explained in a lucid and fairly co...

Interesting.  You learn something every day.

The video is almost two hours long - a thorough documentation of the parade, apparently without any commentary, best approached for casual v...

As reported this week in The Guardian : A US appeals court on Friday declared a nearly 158-year-old federal ban on home distilling to be unc...

Autonomous weapons (aka "killer robots") were the basis for the Terminator movies and uncounted spinoffs and copycats.  But th...

An excerpt from Heather Cox Richardson's April 13 " Letters from an American " - Just as there is a blueprint for destroying d...

Details from Deutsche Welle : At 69 years old , Lady Fatou on Monday became not only the Berlin Zoo's longest-residing tenant but also m...

Screencap this afternoon from the France 24 site.  Putin's ally Orban loses despite Trump's support: “My Administration stands ready...

Here you go, sweetheart.  Read this and weep.  This is a spontaneous public rant by a person who is supposed to represent the dignity of the...

I can't imagine anyone had serious hopes that peace could be negotiated during the recent summit in Pakistan, when the U.S. positions in...

I came across an interesting quote from one of my favorite authors : “ As life goes on it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invent...

A very interesting headline in The Hill this morning.  Details re the implementation at the link. I came of age during the 1960s, when the ...

I'm not particularly surprised that the U.S. leads the world in this metric, but the numbers are unexpected.  Per capita usage of 141 r...

If I'm going to blog words tonight (in order to avoid you-know-what/you-know-who), we might as well look at this wonderful word meaning ...

It's a word most people recognize and vaguely understand, but I was curious about the etymology. From French déranger , from Old French ...