Author Archives: jharrin4

That’s a neclear weapon lauch code up there. Well, not literally. But it could be. It was, in the movie from the early 80s entitled War Games. As with all other “what if?” movies or sci-fi, nuclear holocaust novels, the … Continue reading →

History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. So wrote James Joyce in his novel Ulysses in 1922. The main character, Stephen Dedalus, is referring to the painful burden of Irland’s oppressed pass. Again, circa 1922. That … Continue reading →

Help wanted. Experience preferred but will train; election monitors, local, statewide and national. Rebuplican Party of the United States. Especially in need of the following: Rustlers, cut throats, bounty hunters, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, idiots, morons, scumbags, racists, … Continue reading →

Familiar with the adage No news is good news? Well, if you are not, now you are. It dates back to 1616 and King James I. He said No news is better than evil news. Running a country or two … Continue reading →

81 years ago today the human propensity for violence as a means of settling disagreements reached a new low. History is full of factual recountings of how bloodshed is a virtual birthright for our species. Skulls found on digs show … Continue reading →

Open the pod bay doors please Hal. Open the pod bay doors please Hal. Hello Hal. Do you read me? Hello, Hal. Do you read me? Do you read me Hal? Do your read me Hal? Do you read me? … Continue reading →

While waiting in a short line to get to self-checkout at a grocery store, I noticed an item sitting on top of some product display that clearly was not where it belonged. Perhaps someone thought of buying it but decided … Continue reading →

Sugar has been detected in the Milky Way. ICE murders another immigrant. The Milky Way discovery invokes raspberries and sun tan lotions. Bombing has resumed between the US and Iran. Gas prices jump. The Milky Way sugar surprise was detected … Continue reading →

The brilliant astrophysicist Carl Sagan asked NASA, in 1990, to turn Voyager 1’s cameras around to take a picture of Earth from the edge of our solar system. The probe snapped a now iconic photograph of our planet from its … Continue reading →

June is busting out all over, no matter where you are, today being June 8. “June is busting out all over” is one of the songs from the 1943 musical Oklahoma! 1943 also included the U.S. as an Allied member … Continue reading →