I don’t have much to say about the death of Peter Jennings, but plenty of other people and news sources do. The best and perhaps most in depth one I’ve seen so far has been by John Simpson of the BBC. Peter did what he could to halt the downward spiral of television news in …
Category Archives: Politics
Inside the Earth and Beyond Neptune
A couple interesting scientific discoveries lately. One was the discovery of another “minor planet” that resides in the Kuiper Belt of asteroids beyond Neptune. There have actually been two of these large space rocks found recently. The BBC reports extensively on “2003 UB313”. It seems to be the largest of the objects, larger than pluto …
Changing of the Guard in Iran
A moving post from Iran Hopes 2005 Today, at a newspaper agent, I found an elderly woman in tears. Her eyes were fixed on the headlines of a newspaper which read: “The Last Saturday of Khatamiâ€. She was crying in silence. I wish for strength for the Iranian people as they move forward into an …