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Lately I have been thing about a new way of educating high-schoolers. It is a statistical certainty that a percentage of our youth are not bound for college. This has nothing to do with color, race, national origin or gender. It seems to me that it would be better to prepare the above...

Today, Dwight Clark, former receiver for the S.F. 49'ers, and famous for "The Catch" died of Lou Gehrig's disease (ALS) at age only 61. R.I.P. Dwight. Thank you for the wonderful memories.

I watched as Mount St Hellen's erupted in 1980. As huge as that was, it is still nothing compared to what nature is capable of. http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/msh/impact.html Kilauea ? Just a minor side show compared to other volcanic events within the history of man. At the bottom of the citation...

The entire Hawaiian chain of islands were formed as the pacific tectonic plate slides over the "hot spot". It has been an on-going event for 100's of millions of years. If humans still inhabit this planet 100 million years from now, they will be seeing exactly what we are now seeing. As...

Boy on the Mexican side of the border. Notice the old "wall". In the background are several of the prototypes for the new wall.

Last Friday, just a fews miles from my residence, construction began on the new border wall. Local news said that it will be 30 feet tall and be topped with a solid metal "anti-climbing" plate. No photos yet available. Simultaneously, work began in the Calexico area. Whether we will ever...

I just came across an article on Amal Clooney's wedding outfit that she wore to the "royal" wedding. Wow ! $500,000 for a wedding outfit ? I don't get it. Heck, I can not even imagine it. Why does a woman need to go to such lengths ? Is it some sort of competition among women ?

I should start by telling you I'm in a very bad mood today. Why? I just watched "Tokyo Trial" on Netflix I did not notice, at the beginning of the docu-drama that it was produced by Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK). I thought I was going to get an honest look at an important piece of WW2...

Poseidon, Ancient Greek bronze statue. Would have once held a spear or trident.

The entire shame/embarrassment of the nude body is a ridiculous affectation and mostly confined to Western nations. As mentioned above, the Japanese have a "***** festival". Where huge 20 foot-long *****'s are carried through the streets. The ancient Egyptians often portrayed Gods with fully...

Thank you, Manatee. I just looked that up. Good stuff. The politically correct are scary.

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HappyFlower, interesting video. It is certainly true that those small pots, could have been ancient primitive batteries. I have read about them before and it is possible. However, in my opinion, the rest of the video is pure hokum. 1st, the entire Earth has some electro-magnetic force. So, we...

HappyFlower, you could be right about some pyramids not being used as tombs. However, I was inside "The Great Pyramid" of Khufu on the Giza Plateau, just west of Cairo, and in the uppermost chamber there is a granite sarcophagus. The lid is missing. Note that one of the corners has been broken...