Rocketdyne Gets Snubbed Again
I think NASA made a grievous error in not flying over Rocketdyne on Endeavour's final mission to Los Angeles. The place where the main engines on every orbiter put in LEO were designed and built is...
View ArticleThat's Just Stupid, You Moronic Idiot!
I have often said I spent over two decades – the entire length of my career at Rocketdyne – trying to get Engineering to talk to Information Technology; two different groups of geeks, each of which...
View ArticleThe Debates: S/S & Medicare Off The Table?
I am 65 years old. An old fart. A geezer. An alta cocker. Two years ago I accepted an early severance package from the company I was working for, in part because of my eligibility to receive Social...
View ArticleCan Men Be Feminists?
I hope this is a question many men have asked themselves. It's important to understand and come to a useful resolution about this, as I think there are many men who support women's equality but are...
View ArticleMartial Law or Cocooning?
"It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break,...
View ArticleGolf, Culture, & Cognitive Dissonance
Noticing what seems to be the relatively recent appearance of members of the Military tending the flag at virtually every golf tournament, I find myself wondering what it says about the direction of...
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How To Shop
This is what I should have been wearing All the stories about Walmart's being open on Thanksgiving, and the other stores now following suit, reminded me of a lesson I learned a long time ago that's...
View ArticleArundhati Roy's Decade Old Epitaph for the U.S.
A decade ago, Arundhati Roy wrote what may turn out to be the epitaph of our country. It was - and remains - incisive and prescient. Titled "The US Invasion of Iraq: The Most Cowardly War ever Fought...
View ArticleI'd Like to Slap the Shit Out of McCain and Graham
The petulant bullyboy rantings of people like John McCain and Lindsey Graham should remind us there are lots of doddering old fools (and others) who would involve us in more wars because . . . well,...
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