A thoughtful reflection on the meaning of the triumph of Artemis-II in today's world. link.motherjones.com/public/45159...

Top US Fema official claims to have teleported to a Waffle House before ‘Teleporting is no fun,’ Gregg Phillips, picked to lead Fema’s office of response and recovery, has said on a podcast

No one is too crazy or unqualified for this Administration, as long as they are blindly loyal to the dear leader. “A far-right conspiracy theorist turned high-ranking official at the US Federal Emergency Management Agency claims to have once teleported to a Waffle House.“

The Artemis-II spacecraft has major components from the European Space Agency: The European Service Module (ESM) is providing Orion’s propulsion. It also provides the crew’s life-support systems (water and air, temperature), all of which are powered by the module’s four solar wings.

Is this the year the U.S. finally lands a robotic rover on the moon? A hidden milestone lurks in the U.S.’s Artemis-focused lunar ambitions—the nation’s first-ever successful robotic moon rover

A piece in Scientific American about upcoming U.S. robotic rovers on the Moon. I provided a few quotes about Lunar Vertex, APL's lunar lander/rover science investigation.

Nancy Guthrie Disappearance Highlights Psychic Failure | Skeptical Inquirer As March 2026 comes to a close it has been two months since the abduction of Nancy Guthrie, the octogenarian mother of Today show co-host Savannah Guthrie, ...

"not a single psychic has led police to Nancy Guthrie—potentially saving her life, claiming the $1M reward, bringing criminals to justice, [and] relieving the family’s grief. There’s no way around it: The psychics either cannot locate her, or they choose not to do so for some reason."

Maybe these three:
Wargentin - flooded up to the rim with mare lava.
Proclus - awesome rays with exclusion zone.
King - lobster-claw-shaped central peak

Go Artemis-II !

Vance says he’s ‘obsessed’ with UFO files, calls aliens ‘demons’ Vice President Vance revealed in a new interview that he is “obsessed” with unidentified flying objects, or UFOs, vowing to get to the bottom of the mystery before leaving office. “Trust me, anybod…

Vice President Vance thinks that UFOs are demons. Hmm . . . and maybe the Loch Ness monster is the Holy Ghost.

And have to include a lunar meteorite: Calcalong Creek is fun to say.

I like aubrites. How about Peña Blanca Spring?

Meta Lays Off 700 Employees, While Rewarding Top Executives

"Meta’s chief executive is striving to create “superintelligence,” or a godlike A.I. that can act as the ultimate personal companion."

ICE Agents Are Now Patrolling U.S. Airports. Here’s What to Know.

Sending ICE agents to help with TSA duties is like sending the tennis team in to play hockey: they don't know the rules, they lack the right training, and are completely ill-equipped for the job. From the article: "ICE officers’ exact duties at airports remained unclear."

Climate change is speeding up — the pace nearly doubled in ten years Earth is now warming at a rate of around 0.35 ºC per decade, fresh analysis finds.

It's getting hot, faster.

The Best of Monty Python : Bullseye with Jesse Thorn ...and now for something completely different! This week, we're celebrating the work of Monty Python. One of the most influential sketch groups of all time. This special episode features interviews fr...

Here's a great collection of conversations with the members of Monty Python, from the Bullseye radio show/podcast.

Opinion | Trump Is Making Jimmy Carter’s Mistake on Iran and Oil

How to be better insulated from oil price shocks? This Middle East expert says “Over the long run, the United States needs to do what China is already doing: invest in E.V.s.”

The Angels, The Stones and The Dead | Cautionary Tales In the final days of the Sixties, The Rolling Stones join forces with other rock legends to plan a free concert at Altamont Speedway that will rival Woodstock. They choose The Hells Angels for securit...

Recounting the series of bad decisions that led to having Hells Angels as security at the infamous Grateful Dead-Rolling Stones concert at Altamont, Ca. in 1969.

Kash Patel’s Girlfriend Seeks Fame and Fortune, Escorted by an F.B.I. SWAT Team

The unwritten rule "Never embarrass the Bureau"? Someone please tell the Director.

The Chair Company (TV Series 2025– ) ⭐ 7.4 | Comedy, Thriller | TV-MA

Anyone seen "The Chair Company"? I'd say this series is the very definition of an offbeat, dark comedy/thriller.

Noem Can’t Explain Why She Hired 8-Day-Old Company for Ad Campaign Kristi Noem struggled to defend hiring a company linked to a political operative.

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem gave a $143M no-bid contract to a company staffed by her friends. The CEO is married to Noem's former DHS spokesperson. Most organizations have an ethics rule about “avoiding even the appearance of a conflict of interest.” Not in this Administration.

Kash Patel chugs beer with Team USA after denying Italy trip was for holiday Kash Patel was filmed chugging beer with the American men’s hockey team despite insisting he was not flying to Italy to “hang out at the Olympics”.

I recently saw an interview with a former FBI agent. She said they had one very important unwritten rule: Never embarrass the Bureau. The current director has not gotten the message.

Hegseth invited pastor who calls for Christian theocracy to lead Pentagon prayer service | CNN Politics A controversial pastor who supports repealing women’s right to vote and believes homosexuality should be a crime led a worship service at the Pentagon this week, saying he was invited by Defense Secre...

A pastor who supports repealing women’s right to vote and believes homosexuality should be a crime led a worship service at the Pentagon, saying he was invited by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

North of North (TV Series 2025– ) ⭐ 7.5 | Comedy 25m | TV-14

North of North (on Netflix) is a lot of fun. www.imdb.com/title/tt2737...

FIRST LISTEN with Lauren: Smoking Popes - Allegiance YouTube video by Q101

Continuing with “Where are today's protest songs?” (drawn from the Sound Opinions podcast episode #1055):
Smoking Popes with Scott Lucas, 'Allegiance'.

BILLY BRAGG - CITY OF HEROES YouTube video by Billy Bragg

“Where are the protest songs today?” Well here's one. Billy wrote and recorded it in a day. Read the lyrics, shown below the video.

The UFO Movie THEY Don't Want You to See The science behind today's UFO/UAP phenomenon.

As he tries to distract from the Epstein files, the president made an announcement about UFOs. For an entertaining science-based look at the chances of alien life and interstellar travel, and explanations of much-hyped Navy “UFO” videos, check out “The UFO Movie THEY Don't Want You To See”.

Trump pardons five ex-NFL players for crimes from perjury to drug trafficking The group includes Hall of Famer Joe Klecko and former Cowboys star Nate Newton, who was told the news by Dallas owner Jerry Jones

The president keeps pardoning drug dealers and kingpins. These are just the latest – look up Garnett Gilbert Smith, Larry Hoover, and Juan Orlando Hernández.

The world has too much oil right now. Will companies want Venezuela's? Crude prices are low. Companies are being cautious. But huge reserves — particularly of the heavy, viscous oil Venezuela has in abundance — remain appealing.

Venezuela's oil is 'sour heavy crude'. "It's more difficult and expensive, to extract, transport and refine. Producing it releases more planet-warming gases than other kinds of crude, making it worse for the climate." The 'sour' means high in polluting sulfur. It should stay in the ground.

I've read a number of Nick Hornby's books and novels over the years (Fever Pitch, High Fidelity, How To Be Good, Songbook, Slam, Funny Girl). I recently found this Hornby-edited short story collection at Goodwill. It's from 2002, and features some real literary stars. All the stories were great.

The Elephant Man (1980) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive The Elephant ManBased upon the life of John Merrick, the Elephant Man, who was hideously deformed by a disease that to this day is incurable. He makes everyone...

I just watched David Lynch's “The Elephant Man”, starring John Hurt and Anthony Hopkins. From 1980, it falls between Eraserhead (1977) and Dune (1984). You can see it here.

Why don't they use foil-wrapped cucumbers, like the guys in Spinal Tap?