There is a UFO at the bottom of the Baltic Sea — maybe. Sonar has located a curious disk-shaped object on the floor of the Baltic Sea, between Sweden and Finland. Enthusiastic treasure hunters and UFO buffs say it looks like the Millennium Falcon from Star Wars. (I think it looks more like Pac Man.) [...]
Posts Tagged ‘World’
The UFO At The Bottom Of The Sea
Posted in World, Science, Technology, tagged Technology, Science, World, Science Fiction, Sweden, Finland, UFOs, Baltic Sea, Geraldo Rivera on February 2, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Syria On The Brink Of Chaos
Posted in World, tagged America, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Middle East, Russia, Syria, United Nations, World, World War I on January 30, 2012 | 10 Comments »
It’s bad in Syria, and it seems to be getting worse. This is not good news for the United States, or the world. Fighting between Syrian government troops and rebels apparently is raging across the country. The rebels are reporting that 95 people were killed in clashes that reached the suburbs of Damascus. Syrian [...]
The President As Pitchman
Posted in America, Politics, The Economy, World, tagged America, Disney World, Politics, President Obama, The Economy, Tourism, We Can't Wait, World on January 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Last week President Obama went down to Disney World to tout tourism in America and got his picture taken with the Disney castle in the background. The trip was part of the President’s “We Can’t Wait” campaign, in which he does things by himself that are supposed to promote job growth and show that we [...]
Mayan Misunderstanding
Posted in Humor, Movies, World, tagged 2012, End Of The World, Humor, Mayan Calendar, Mayan culture, Movies, World on January 3, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Our New Year arrives carrying some apocalyptic baggage. Many people have focused on the significance of 2012 under the Mayan calendar, and whether the calendar predicts that 2012 will bring the end of the world. It’s even been the subject of a hilariously over-the-top disaster movie. According to this BBC article, however, that apocalyptic interpretation [...]
Jong Turn
Posted in World, tagged Kim Jong Il, Kim Jong-Un, North Korea, Nuclear Weapons, South Korea, World on December 19, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Kim Jong-Il, the leader of North Korea since 1994, is dead. Official reports said he died of a heart attack, as a result of physical and mental overwork. (The official reports aren’t a surprise; Kim Jong-Il was usually depicted, in standard totalitarian fashion, as a selfless, gifted, heroic, hard-working leader.) The dead leader apparently will [...]
Out Of Iraq, And Holding Our Breath
Posted in America, World, tagged America, Iran, Iraq, Nouri Maliki, President Obama, World on December 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Today President Obama met Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki to commemorate the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq. By the end of this month, all troops will be gone, leaving Iraq as an ally that will have to fend for itself in one of the world’s most volatile regions, with Iran as its neighbor. At [...]
Giving Thanks — And Ignoring The Falling Dominoes
Posted in America, Politics, World, tagged America, European Debt Crisis, Federal Debt, Italy, Politics, World on November 25, 2011 | 1 Comment »
We Americans have many reasons to be thankful this year, and one of the reasons is that we aren’t Italy — yet. I’ve written before about the debt problems in Europe. Things keep getting worse there. The dominoes are slowly falling and threatening to knock over larger and larger economies. The latest country to teeter [...]
Our Awesome Earth
Posted in Science, World, tagged Earth, International Space Station, Science, Space, World on November 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The crew of the International Space Station recently took a series of time-lapse photographs of the Earth using a special camera. The results, when strung together, are stunning. (Pay no attention, incidentally, to the uninspired music accompanying the photos — these pictures are worthy of accompaniment by the finest Bach cantata, or a Mozart symphony, [...]
Cain And Italy
Posted in America, Politics, World, tagged America, Herman Cain, Italy, News media, World on November 8, 2011 | 2 Comments »
The news coverage for the last few days has been dominated by allegations of sexual harassment by Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain. The steady drip, drip, drip of new information and accusations has knocked all other news off the front page. I don’t mean to downplay the importance of dealing properly with incidents of sexual [...]
Buying The President’s Books
Posted in America, Books, Humor, World, tagged America, Books, Dreams from My Father, Federal Budget, Federal Spending, Humor, News, President Obama, The Audacity of Hope, United States State Department, World on November 2, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Sometimes it is the little stories that are the most instructive. I think that may be the case with the story about the State Department, through various U.S. embassies, spending more than $60,000 on books authored by President Obama. According to a federal database, the American embassy in Paris spent more than $8,300 on Dreams [...]
It’s All Greek To Me
Posted in World, tagged European Debt Crisis, Germany, Greece, Greece Debt Crisis, World on November 1, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Every day brings a new twist to the Greek/Eurozone debt drama. It’s as confusing and quick-moving as a whirling Greek folk dance. One day it’s general euphoria because another bailout deal has been struck. The next day it’s back down in the dumps because the markets question whether the bailout will work. The most recent [...]
Who’s No. 7,000,000,000?
Posted in Humor, World, tagged Adnan Nevic, Danica May Camacho, Humor, News, Philippines, United Nations, World, World Population on November 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday, the United Nations reckons, the world’s seven billionth inhabitant was born. The UN has determined that no. 7,000,000,000 is Danica May Camacho, born in the Philippines. The UN has shouldered the burden of designating a kid to represent each of these population milestones. Resident Of Earth No. 6,000,000,000 is a Bosnian boy named Adnan [...]
Lessons From A Mastodon’s Rib
Posted in Science, Technology, World, tagged Clovis hunters, Early Humans, Extinction, Human History, Ice Age, Mastodons, Science, Technology, World on October 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Scientists have been carefully examining the rib bone of a mastodon, a giant, tusked, elephant-like creature that roamed North America thousands of years ago. The bone has led them to some interesting conclusions about when humans first came to the Americas, and what they were like. The mastodon rib bone is unique because it includes [...]
