In August or July, China tested a missile (or rocket) system that may be a Fractional Orbital Bombardment System (FOBS) or maybe something else. I’m not a missile expert, so I have no opinions on what it is, but I know some missile experts whom...
Author: Cheryl Rofer
UFOs, Havana Syndrome, and the possibility that SARS-CoV-2 was developed in a Chinese laboratory are all security threats. But not the way you may think. All three posit diabolical motives.
Paul's post makes a number of good points, but slips up seriously on one. For a long time I’ve thought that it would make more sense to describe “the Sixties”.
I was surprised last week to see one of the epidemiologists I follow admonishing those who think that covid's “becoming endemic” is a good thing for humans. It is a good thing for SARS-CoV-2, because endemicity means it persists in the human population, although at...
Over the weekend, Jonathan and Diana Toebbe were arrested by the FBI in West Virginia for trying to sell classified information on nuclear submarines to another country. What Toebbe didn’t.
I see we need a thread to discuss and speculate on what the problem is with everyone's favorite social media. It seems to be a DNS problem, which is basic.
A Dutch newspaper has tracked down participation of a Dutch transport company, Mammoet, in a complex scheme involving Michael Flynn and nuclear reactors. Of all the outrageous stories to come out of the Trump administration, this one is likely to take the prize. When we...
Last week the Fish and Wildlife Service declared 11 birds, 8 freshwater mussels, 2 fish, a bat and a plant extinct. The headliner is the ivory-billed woodpecker, but the Bachman’s.
Photo by Tyler Merbler under a Creative Commons license. Journalistic and legal work continues to piece together the details of January 6. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW).
I don't have a lot of time today, but I want to get this out there. Robert Kagan, of whom I am not a fan, has a must-read op-ed in the Washington Post. He lays out his view of where things may be going, and...
On June 30, the Los Angeles Police Department detonated fireworks in a containment vessel mounted on a vehicle. The resulting blast damaged cars and houses and injured people. Sahra Sulaiman.
A while back, when it seemed like a lot of people were becoming ill with covid, I wondered how long it would take to get to herd immunity the hard.