"This is a test, isn’t it?" I asked my wife via Instant Messenger after a long pause. "No it’s not," she replied, "and you really
I saw on MSNBC.com that the first wave of U. S. strikes against the Taliban have begun this morning. The Taliban has moved 8,000 to
The storms in the Greater Central Valley of California never get that impressive, at least not in Yolo and Solano Counties. True, there are floods
The self-teaching guide for pre-calculus that I purchased assures me, "Factoring is fun!" (italics in the original). Factoring, in case you slept through your high
Apparently, for some people, a call for reasoned action is equivalent to a call for no action. I received the following e-mail in my mailbox
For the past couple of days I have been listening almost non-stop to NPR’s coverage of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center on
A couple of years ago, before Y2K failed to dim so much as a single light bulb at midnight, studying bizarre and wacky conspiracy theories
It was the second day of Dragon*Con 2001, one of the largest science fiction gatherings in the United States. Jennifer and I were taking a