Figures.  The U.S. won't make it to Mars by 2030 at the latest...the Chinese will, with a mixed crew.  And return alive.

Wake up all you status seekers!  Go to Nordstrom or Panera Bread and get a bag!   Then you can carry your bargain burgers around in style!  How about a Fredericks of Hollywood or a Victoria's Secrets bag?

It's no wonder that so many young Americans in uniform were called "boys", as many ended up with just six weeks of basic training a few weeks after their senior year in h.s. before being sent to replacement depots in France, esp. in the late summer and fall of '44.  See "The Boys'  Crusade:  The American Infantry in No...more

Horrifying.  Mother Nature at her worst.   I don't think Darwin, Australia suffered this much destruction when a tropical cyclone destroyed much of the city on Christmas Day, 1974.  More deaths than Moore, so far.  Darwin was also bombed by the Japanese in Feb. 1942.  Tokyo--huge quake in 1923 then 22 yrs. later set af...more

Unionized Costco pays much more than minimum wage!  More than Wal-Mart!

Well, at least he is still alive.  China executes not only killers, kidnappers and rapists, but con artists too.  All are hauled out in manacles to a killing area, then shot.  TS:  Tough Situation.

Come on folks...go to Panera Bread and carry one of their bags.  PB is often noted as an "upmarket" pay at the counter eaterie.

All three will fade away in a few weeks just in time for the Fourth of July parties.  Consumer confidence is high and the Gallup Poll records far more interest in the 9-11 disaster  and the two deaths...Lady Diana in 1997 and JFK Jr. in 1999.

Yes, this is another take on her personality....she was the daughter of Teddy Roosevelt's younger brother.  By the way, TR finally was awarded the Medal of Honor in 1999 by Clinton for his actions in Cuba in 1898.   TR's son earned a MOH on Utah Beach, 1944.  TR--- Nobel Prize for Peace, 1904.  One hell of a Dutch-Am...more