The Dead Hand Journal

Pull out of Iraq???
Perhaps the U.S. should pull out of Chicago?

“This is an ingenious experiment that worked for Dr. Williscroft's own son. I genuinely hope that it works for your child, too, and that each new story in this series will enrich your child as much as they did his son. In fact, I sincerely hope that this experiment will prove to be very successful for all children!”

Dr. Frank Drake
Carl Sagan Center for the Study of Life in the Universe
SETI Institute, Mountain View, California
 

As George Santayana famously said, those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it. Let's maintain enough perspective to remember who the good guys are.

This article appeared on www.telegraph.co.uk on Jul 9, 2008, and appears here with the permission of Telegraph Media Group Limited. By any measure this is an unusual Arab.

In the American Physical Society forum, Christopher Monkton provides a comprehensive summary of the failures of the anthropogenic climate change movement to come to grips with reality.

Black-themed cable network TV One plans to break from its usual entertainment programming to provide extensive coverage of the Democratic National Convention in August. But not one minute of air time for the Republicans!

Today we are 232 years old. How long will it last?

If you have kids (and even if you don’t, now that I think about it), this weekend will offer an interesting stargazing opportunity: Saturn, Mars, and the Moon will appear in very close alignment with the bright navigational star Regulus in the constellation Leo, low in the western sky right after sunset. This is naked-eye astronomy at its best!

The Space and Science Research Center (SSRC) issues a formal declaration: global warming has ended – the next climate change to a pronounced cold era has begun.

New research compiled by Australian scientist Dr. Tom Chalko shows that global seismic activity on Earth is now five times more energetic than it was just 20 years ago. The cause? Global warming, of course!

If you're having a hard time getting your kid to quit playing with high explosives, show him this video. Unless you're a terrorist, in which case we encourage you to join in the fun.

Meet Corporal Lonnie Young, a Marine in the fighting tradition of Dan Daly.

Don't know how I missed this one when the news broke in March, but thanks to my good friend Chris Smith for the tip. USS New York, clad with 24 tons of steel from World Trade Center 1, is preparing for battle.