Before the Supreme Court is a case named Kennedy v. Bremerton School District. To make a long explanation much shorter, Joe Kennedy — the Bremerton High School football coach who was fired for insisting on gathering his team to pray at the 50-yard line immediately after games — claims his…

“This is the most boring f**king watch I’ve ever stood.” These words came from MM2 White, the ‘topwatch’, the senior watchstander in #2 Main Machinery Room (2MMR, or “2 Main” for short) on the USS Ranger (CV-61). He was seated and leaned forward, resting his head on crossed arms on…

The RTS Moskva, the flagship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, has been sunk. According to Ukrainian sources, they struck the Moskva with two Neptune missiles and sent the Moskva to the bottom of the sea. At first, the Russian news agencies claimed that a fire had broken out and…

How much in taxpayer dollars would you be willing to spend to prevent a nuclear war? And would you be willing to give that entire amount — even if it’s, say, five billion dollars — to one demonstrably evil man, on the condition that wherever he decides to live, that…

We all saw the buildup of Russian forces nearly surrounding Ukraine, but most of us didn’t believe Putin would allow his own pride to take him down the road to starting a war of naked aggression against the second-largest nation in Europe. But he has done just that, and so…

Why these technologies will change our world even more than computers — From the time of the ‘Analytical Engine’ proposed by Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage to the modern day, consider the extent to which computers have changed human civilization. Communication from one city to another took place no more quickly than the speed of a horse or a ship. When one’s…

Why we must keep what is good and right about chivalry. “No, chivalry is not dead — but it’s about time it was”. This was the title of an article that made the rounds over the past week. I’ve always been a big believer in chivalry since my youth a…

There’s only one caveat: it can only be made with fresh snow Most parents know the feeling: it snowed last night, school’s been cancelled for the day, and your kids are driving you nuts. Yes, they’ve played outside, but now they just want to stay inside and they’re expecting you…

How this is but one example of the spread of authoritarian nationalism, the modern version of monarchism — “Reading, Writing, ‘Rithmetic, and don’t let the Holocaust happen again!” Yes, that description of modern American education is hyperbolic, but the point is clear: all of us — including nearly all the so-called deniers — know the Holocaust happened, and we don’t want to see it again. So why would…