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I haven’t seen a word in the USA media about this story so I am putting it out here. This is a major disaster. Sri Lanka is an island about the size of West Virginia and sits off the southeast coast of India. It is home to about 22 million people....

Electricity is getting more and more expensive, and there’s much more to it than simply increased demand, though that's bad enough. The worst part is utility companies are guaranteed a profit for a bad business model that never reduces their returns,...

The Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft was successfully launched yesterday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan; it transported NASA astronaut Chris Williams and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev to the International Space Station...

I stopped paying much attention to Trump’s delusional social media rants long ago, but the headlines about his Thanksgiving tirade against immigrants made me pay attention to this one. It is telling, more about what the people around him are thinking...

A recent Daily Kos article concisely pointed out why it’s much riskier to aggravate the right than it is to aggravate the left. Both sides are not the same!

UPDATE: Saturday, Nov 29, 2025 · 3:16:39 PM +00:00 · xaxnar I should mention I am going ahead with the model train order despite the Trump tariff price hike. That being said, I was just looking at some new Lionel product announcements in a series I had...

The recession of 2008 hit some states earlier than others, and the state we'd moved to seven years before was one of them. Oregon fell on hard times, my husband was laid off and he & I were struggling to juggle part-time jobs with caring for two young...

Today—when our Constitution, the rule of law, the common welfare, and even truth itself is under constant attack—our instinct is to protect and preserve this nearly 250-year experiment in democracy, particularly our Constitution. Our Constitution was...

In the lexicon of political warnings, few historical analogies carry the weight of the Reichstag fire. The 1933 arson attack on the German parliament building remains the archetypal example of a "false flag" or exploited crisis—a violent event used by...

Pete Hegseth, Secretary of War, has made it to the big time. The hottest satirical show in town, South Park, has featured the beef-brained, self-branded, paleolithic Homo stultus (aka Homo ignoramus) in its latest commentary on Trump and his fellow...