The Uncarved Block

Happy New Year! Do you trust Facebook to keep all of your data - all of you photos, chats, posts? What happens if there is a cyber att...

The United States of America was a grand experiment, but it is coming to an end. That’s OK. No empire lasts forever. Nearly two hundr...

Will changes to air traffic control improve US aviation safety? One of the goals of the FAA’s NextGen “Next Generation” Air Traff...

The FAA planned, designed, and implemented NextGen (their "Next Generation" air traffic control system) with very littl...

Airplanes crash into my quiet life My peace and serenity have been taken from me. Nine years ago I bought a home in a quiet neig...

Image by Anne & Saturnino Miranda from Pixabay Life is dukkha . The hummingbird does not know this. Oh to be a hummi...

Punxsutawney Phil says, "There will be 30 more winters before groundhogs become extinct due to global climate change. Then yo...

SIGAL 2016 – A NEW CANDIDATE FOR A NEW DAY I have been watching the Republicans for some months now, and I've learned a lot from...

I recently stumbled across a blog post  discussing the idea that a lot of people think that there are 52 states in the Uni...

I  have received many inquiries asking what the heck the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah is all about. More specifically, people want ...