Today the talk is about Cuba and U.S. relations. Glass houses often beg a stone. *** Drew Sheneman , The Week *** Quantanamo is...

*** I'll be taking a break from blogging for a while to explore other avenues, but might continue posting Friday cartoons. Might...

The mix today looks at the Flint Michigan hearings; an Edward R. Murrow quote about campaigns as circus; whether voters are anti-republican...

Plastisphere, "Yum, Plastic" (Environmental Science and Technology),   Grist *** In a recent post, I offered information ab...

The predominantly Kurdish town of Kobani is devastated after months under siege by Islamist forces and airstrikes by a United States-led ...

Cartoonists are riffing on these news bites this week: ISIS is going broke , the world watches the U.S. presidential race with 'disbeli...

The Roving, 84 Lumber *** Whether these houses have the footprint of a trailer or the shape of an egg, they're considered '...

The Dark,Tower, vol.7, Wikipedia *** A friend of mine once told me that she read S. King's The Stand every year. That made quite...

Three of today's cartoons feature a play on words; the fourth is an outlier in more ways than one. Marshall Ramsey: "Stupor Tue...

*** Loving Vincent is a most pleasing combination of painting and film produced by Polish studio BreakThru Films and Trademark Films. ...

Afghan women, AsiaSociety.org *** Eliza Griswold , a poet herself, wrote an article  Why Afghan Women Risk Death to Write Poetry tha...

Today's mix looks at the GOP's (possible) dawning self-awareness, Applesauce, and Facebook's new 'Like' buttons. Repu...

Video credits: Science Channel , "Viewing the Universe for the First Time"   *** Assuming you're the center of anything...

Dima Rebus, "I've been out walking,"  dimarebus.com *** Taking a break from posts on technical topics, here are two a...

Looking at some of the trends from this week's news and editorial views, we see Hollywood producing the presidential election; Judge Ju...

The Cyber Activists Who Want to Shut Down ISIS , Reuters / Paul Spella / The Atlantic *** Freedom of speech can be so tricky. If you...

Warka Tower: How it functions,  WarkaWater *** A while back I posted about the Warka Tower, DIY: getting water from air . I'm hap...

It's all politics in my cartoon world today, except for one about the Zika Virus and one about lead levels in Flint vs. those in Penns...