This is why the current college generation is distrustful

When most Americans are fed up with paying higher prices and seeing greed on both sides destroy the American economy, you'll even find it at colleges and universities. Higher tuition costs? Hope you like paying for that university president's new poolhouse.

For crying out loud, are we alone or not?

Who knows. It would be interesting to at least find a few planets out there past our own solar system...

Space Olympics

Good pieces of cosmic candy -- this was incredibly original

Tony Snow's legacy just starting to be great

Another great has passed -- Tony Snow, even to far-left socialist pushmen, was a symbol of dignity in his short time at the White House. To be gone at 53 is just a travesty -- but to have influence and a legacy that will grow even deeper as time passes will hopefully wake many of us up. I don't mean that in a derogatory way; it's the difference between someone who makes decisions based on fact and those who conjure speculation based on mere emotion.

A less better place without you

Sometimes, people make us question ourselves. Make us question each other. Make us all better people by opening our minds, if only for a few minutes. Make us take notice of the world at large instead of our individual personal ecosystems.

They make us proud be to someone who is a citizen of the United States. Make us lucky to be here, observing the grandest, united institution ever created. Make us believe that if we have moments of honesty outside our selfish lives, that maybe we can all be the better for it in some collective way.

You can be left, you can be right. You can be a tree-hugger, you can be a Hummer driver. You can be self-serving or self-giving. But, don't forget the people in this world who balance out all our irregular sides into something that helps civilization continue with a smile on its face.

Google is Skynet

I have a feeling Skynet from the Terminator movies is manifesting itself in the real world through Google. If you want to melt your noggin reading about the sheer scale of Google's massive computing infrastructure, see this. Then, say "hasta la vista, baby."