mm505: Could it happen again?
© Bo Widerberg | Dreamstime.com There’s more at stake in the present Wall Street bailout tsunami than the partisan posturing might lead you to believe. Conservatives vs. moderates vs. progressives vs....
View Articlemm500: Blast from the Past! No. 54 – Edison vs. Tesla
© Kandasamy M | Dreamstime.com First day back at work after a bereavement leave, and we’re still not ready for the world of blogging. Nevertheless, we’re all about doing the right thing here at...
View Articlemm491: Blast from the Past! No. 48 – War with Iran?
© Kandasamy M | Dreamstime.com Events, continue to conspire, making it unacceptably late to start a fresh project, but hey, recycling is IN, right? We’re all about doing the right thing here at...
View Articlemm489: Blast from the Past! No. 46 – Abolish the Air Force
© Carbouval | Dreamstime.com MUDGE’S Musings Events, continue to conspire, making it unacceptably late to start a fresh project, but hey, recycling is IN, right? We’re all about doing the right thing...
View Articlemm463: Blast from the Past! No. 40!
MUDGE’S Musings © Carbouval | Dreamstime.com So, back into the archives yet again, but hey, recycling is IN, right? We’re all about doing the right thing here at Left-Handed Complement, and in that...
View Articlemm459: Blast from the Past! No. 39
MUDGE’S Musings So, back into the archives yet again, (once again, a picnic summer concert with friends) but this time, you really get a treat, as this is one of my all time favorites, not by any...
View Articlemm454: It’s going to take a liberal quantity of BOLD
© Michaeljung | Dreamstime.com MUDGE’s Musings We observe the first anniversary of the tragic collapse of the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis (August 1, 2007) with some sadness, and furious anger. Sadness...
View Articlemm403: Blast from the Past! No. 26
MUDGE’s Musings We embark this weekend on a business trip to a conference in Boston. As conferences usually take up a great deal of uptime, without the downtime associated with a normal schedule, we...
View Articlemm209: Happy Birthday, Dad!
MUDGE’S Musings I wrote a note to my children today, and I’m just self-indulgent enough to share it with you. My father was always proud of the fact that he shared a birthday with Winston Churchill,...
View Articlemm202: November 22, 2007: Thanksgiving day, and so much more
MUDGE’S Musings Thanksgiving day, the U.S. holiday, is celebrated by statute on the fourth Thursday in November. This places the holiday on a varying schedule. It can fall on any date between Nov. 22...
View Articlemm198: GM foods — Wrongheaded opposition is starving the developing world
MUDGE’S Musings Prospect magazine of the UK has a compelling piece, from the European viewpoint on genetically modified food and its wrongheaded opposition. The real GM food scandal by Dick Taverne GM...
View Articlemm195: Edison gets the glory — Tesla won the war
MUDGE’S Musings Every schoolchild, at least of MUDGE‘s generation, knew the name of Thomas Edison, America’s genius inventor. Not nearly so well known today is the reputation of Nikola Tesla, whose...
View Articlemm194: Friedman: Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda
MUDGE’S Musings It’s apparently petroleum week here at L-HC. The previous post tackled the subject of researchers innovating to produce practical biomass (as opposed to the wrong-headed impractical but...
View Articlemm191: Veterans’ Day Observed
MUDGE’S Musings Will not let the weekend go by without pausing to remember the veterans of our military. We can start by remembering that this federal holiday, now spottily observed and placed on a...
View Articlemm186: War with Iran: Inevitable?
MUDGE’S Musings The potential catastrophe of Iran just keeps scaling up. William Arkin, the Washington Post‘s excellent commentator on military affairs updated us Nov. 2 in his Early Warning blog: The...
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