Category Archives: cosmos

Old Sol’s Cosmic Vortex

March 24, 2016 – 11:11 am

Man has gazed into the stars for millions of years from the time of Richard Leakey’s Lucy in Africa to the Neanderthals and Cro-Magnon into the Druids’ sun meters at Stonehenge to present-day astronomers surveying the galaxy and beyond with orbiting telescopes and earthbound radio transmitters. For most of that time the earth was considered […]

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Happy Monkey Year 2016

February 9, 2016 – 8:43 pm

Monkeys are tricky. Move fast. Move with bananas, otherwise you’ll be pelted with monkey shit and that shit stinks. image by tristam de quatremere

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Captain Tom To Ground Control

March 4, 2014 – 12:42 am

My telephone rarely rings from day to day. Young people have abandoned conversation in favor of texting. They avoid face to face encounters, preferring to communicate with friends thousands of miles away rather than the person next to tem at a dinner table. Even more disturbing is their devotion to sending selfies in the billions […]

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Genesis 1 Redux

March 23, 2013 – 7:43 pm

In the beginning there was light and darkness. Even before the beginning there was light and darkness. Neither the light nor the darkness was either good or bad. They were light and darkness. The planets took forever to be part of the light and darkness and water even longer, but they were always there only […]

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Heaven On Earth

May 20, 2011 – 7:51 am

The world is coming to an end tomorrow according to the old git who founded Family Radio. His followers are entranced by the prospect of being swept up to heaven by celestial sprites. There they’re spend eternity worshiping their God. On their knees too. As a non-believer I prefer my heaven on earth. It’s fairly […]

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