Stop playing with wee-wees and start playing with rockets

Bored and no doubt mostly male missile defense techs have been caught with their hands in the virtual cookie jar, or maybe they’ve just spend too much time thinking about missile shaped objects penetrating virgin airspace under the cover of darkness. But US defense techs have been told to thinking about hitting that on taxpayer time, when that is not a tactical or strategic target for nukes: [Read more…]

Serious political question for atheists

What do you rational guys and gals think about political contributions on blog sites? There are advantages and disadvantages obviously. For one thing I don’t ever want readers feeling like they’re just a piggy bank. And it could backfire; opponents of candidates we support might use that support as political ammo against the recipients for taking godless money. There are other concerns as well.

The upside: the reality is I don’t believe we will ever be heard above the din, much less see our political desires even remotely considered, if we individually kick in ten or twenty bucks onto an anonymous webpage. But when I’ve delivered just a few hundred dollars raised from a mere couple of dozen people, that campaign took notice.