Contemporary Art Month CAM will move from July to March, good thinking, let's get out of the heat. I read a good bit of The Story of Art over spring break. Art History is the history of a civilization and how well it comes to depict itself. This simple fact seems to be lost on…

From the SA newspaper Assasins have killed more than 11,000 people amid Mexico's 30 month campaign against organzied crime. The this unbelievable comment about a 30 year old priest shot in the back this past week.  This is the  beginning an indication that they (the gangsters) do not respect anything. Comment by another priest The…

Alert student Rani Lerma submitted this link on hydrogen autos.  This is the first I have read of converting a piston engine to hydrogen. Lots of vehicles run on propane which is a clean carbon gas.   Carbon is the fourth most abundant chemical element in the universe by mass after hydrogen, helium, and oxygen. THe idea of…

I got this e mail from a friend and cannot verify it but….whether this is true I do not know but it reflects a mindset, at this point an electric car makes no sense, the energy is produced by carbon fuel to re charge the battery anyway, the battery weighs too much, it takes too…

While the media is all ga ga over Michael Jackson, let me bring a couple of guys to your attention that deserve this sort of attention.  Little Richard perhaps rightfully claims to have invented rock 'n roll.  He still appears in commercials today as a matter of fact.  INterestingly as I looked this up the Rock…

Charles Krauthammer along with Tom Sowell is a one of the best observers on the scene.  Satellite communication means that revolutions are on display in a way that the Soviet invasion of Czech never was. Indeed this is the Global Village that McLuhan described in the 1960s, no not HIlary's village.  The US no matter…

Regular readers of the blog are aware that my favorite columnist is Tom Sowell, the Milton Friedman endowed prof at Stanford. today he takes on the notion that graduating 'more' students from college is necessarily a god thing.  All of you have attended other colleges be they community colleges or upper level schools. Think about…

One bad product decision after another led to the downfall.  A good sketch of many poor decisions, cars are not soap.

THis Yout Tube depicts flying in another era.The date of 1958 cannot be right. The 707, referred to as the Jet Clipper in the promo was not certified by the FAA until Sept of 1958.  I would guess the actual date is early 1960s. I have sent this on to our resident expert Prof Richard…

A lot of people say John Wayne can't act, but who else can do what John Wayne does? Clint Eastwood in an interview promoting Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, 1974 Gran Torino has done very very well at the box office. Its estimated $35 M cost, cheap by today's standards, has already returned several times that with…