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- Excellent questions.

- From the archive: Astronomer creates Starry Night from images from the Hubble telescope.

- This letter to Politically Homeless makes me feel seen

- VDH on A Media Beyond Caricature. At long last have they no shame?

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- 50 ways the world is getting better. We live at the greatest time in history. We should remember that. (HT Steve Layman) 

- Thinking about Grace

- This is Keanu Reeves. Be like Keanu.

- Hubble discovers a runaway black hole tearing through the universe.

Find Something Beautiful Today

Recent photo from the Hubble Telescope. (Photo via) Headline stolen borrowed from Execupundit.

Starry Night With Real Stars

Very cool! Van Gogh's Starry Night reproduced with actual images of stars from the Hubble Telescope.

Find Something Beautiful Today

The Butterfly Nebula as seen from the Hubble telescope (photo via). Headline stolen borrowed from Execupindit.

Find Something Beautiful Today

The Sombrero Galaxy as seen from the Hubble telescope (photo via). Headline stolen borrowed from Execupundit.

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- US Air Force's X-37B Space Plane lands after record 780-day mystery mission. It's like watching the US Space Force being born in real-time.

- Sometimes I have the humor of a 12-year old boy.

- How to get infected with malware. (HT Stephen Landry)

- NYC secretly exports homeless to Hawaii and other states without telling receiving pols. This program is disturbing enough but equally disturbing is the number of "public servants" in the article who won't or can't account for how the public funds are being spent. "I'm from the government and I'm here to help."

- Very Cool - Van Gogh's Starry Night reproduced using Hubble Telescope images.

- Baghdadi story reveals divided - and broken - news media.

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- Toronto Raptors fans to give away thousands of pro-Hong Kong t-shirts on opening night. Good for the folks who came up with this. Be interesting to see how the team handles the situation.

- Hollywood's new self-censorship mess with China.

- 25 cool Australian slang terms.

- Citizen scientists find thousands of asteroids in Hubble images. Cool.

- Boston represent!

- China vows to retaliate against US Congress for passing Hong Kong human rights legislation. Trying to bully Hollywood is one thing but trying to bully the US Congress should get your hackles up Left and Right.

- Laird Hamilton's 5 rules for healthy living.

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- This story of Robert Mueller's past is chilling. Shameful!

- I admit I love this shirt! I'm going to have to buy one.

-  Navy's first female jet pilot dies at 65

- Interesting - Bill Simmon's Ringer made $15 million on podcast revenue last year

- Holy crap - the lure of the spider-tailed horned viper

- This 72-year old makes me feel guilty for not going to the gym

- Wow!

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- Rules for sons - agree with the list 100% but had to Google what a "Braai" is (its basically barbecue grill - learn something new every day!) Via Cultural Offering

- Heh Heh

- Uh Oh - 28-year Hubble Telescope temporarily out of service. Sounds like a job for Space Force!

- Nuclear Power is to the IPCC what Israel is to the UN

- I'm fascinated by Giant Squid

- Unbelievable progress - more than half the world's population is now middle class. "For the first time since agriculture based civilization began 10,000 years ago, the majority of humankind is no longer poor or vulnerable to falling into poverty."

- Mental Floss' 10 best Sci-Fi movies on Netflix right now. I've only seen 4 (Ex-Machina, Jurassic Park, Rogue One, and Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 2) and have no desire to see the other 6. Am I wrong - am I missing out on a gem of a flick?

Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.

Saying that the Hubble telescope has a new rival is incorrect. I would prefer them to say that Earth based telescope technology has taken the next step forward... Wrap your mind around this - 95% of the taxes we have today in the US did not exist 100-years ago. How many of those taxes were enacted for a specific purpose that may no longer exist but the taxes still do?... This remains one of my favorite paintings and yes I am going to hell... Prohibited means not allowed but you never hear anyone say that things that are allowed are "hibited". Not sure if "hibited" is even a word. I'll be very gruntled if it is... 12-mile wide "lake" found on Mars. Very cool and could serve as a future base of operations of  a manned base on the planet but I can help but keep thinking of the Doctor Who episode The Waters of Mars...  "What can be added to the happiness of the man who is in health, who is out of debt, and has a clear conscience." Sage words of wisdom from Adam Smith... About time! Deadwood movie finally greenlit by HBO...

Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.

Have to admit that I'm surprised that in the more than three weeks since the Red Sox released Hanley Ramirez that no team has signed him. Or maybe Hanley doesn't want to be signed?... Stephen Hawking's memorial stone at Westminster Abbey... Enrico Palazzo is still my favorite opera singer... Cool - a real star bursting in space taken over the course of four years by the Hubble telescope... Greatly amused that Clancy Brown did the voice of Surtur in the movie Thor: Ragnorok. Clancy Brown also does the voice of Mr. Krabs on Spongebob Squarepants. Now I keep picturing a giant Mr. Krabs destroying Asgard with a giant flaming sword. My mind works differently than most people... Excellent weekend advice from the 2nd Battalion, 22nd Infantry...

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- Heh Heh

- These portraits are unreal (or to be more precise - amazingly real)

- How NASA's photo of the "Pillars of Creation" came to be

- A year after Garry Shandling's death - Kevin Nealon looks back

- Something sadly overlooked at the White House yesterday - 25 Medal of Honor winners were honored

- Arnold is the best!

- Heh Heh

Hubble's Blue Bubble

I'm fascinated with things like Hubble's Blue Bubble. Just awesome!

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- Just a reminder that today is the perfect date

- Seven tips for picking your Kentucky Derby horse(s)

- We were promised flying cars!

- Heh heh - so true!

- A Nassau Coliseum retrospective

- The Hubble Telescope turned 25 yesterday. Here are 15 amazing images from those 25-years.

- A reminder that today is ANZAC Day (also a reminder that the song And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda is one of the most emotionally powerful songs ever written)

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- Very cool - all five of Yu Darvish's pitches in one delivery

- If you use an off-shore betting account - this article is must reading.

- The "human computer" passes away

- Wow - Sperm whales battling Killer whales

- The Hubble Telescope's top 100 images

Starry Night With Real Stars

Van Gogh's Starry Night reproduced using images from the Hubble Telescope.

Very cool!

Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.

Last week Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine said that Kevin Youkilis was hitting the same for the White Sox as he was hitting for the Red Sox. He said this out of the blue as if to explain that Valentine wasn't the problem with Youkilis' early season batting woes. The problem is Youkilis is not hitting the same for the White Sox as he was hitting for the Red Sox. His OBP is almost 50 points higher and his OPS is 140 points better. Valentine's failure to grasp this simple fact is a huge red flag regarding his ability to manage in the major leagues today... Interesting read on the role of Wes Welker with the Patriots... Just a reminder but Art Modell was so popular in Cleveland in the late 70's that the Republican Party wanted to run his for Governor... Am I bad person because I thought this was really funny? The Cheers opening turned into Jihad.... I am still coming to grips with the Patriots losing to Arizona on Sunday. Did that really happen?... More awesome photos from the Hubble space telescope...

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Comedians in Cars getting Coffee - Jerry Seinfeld and Alec Baldwin. I could listen to Alec Baldwin do characters speaking in a Burt Lancaster voice for hours.

If you are a Breaking Bad fan then this interview with Betsy Brandt (Marie) is a must read.

Trent Dilfer - Matt Hasselbeck saved my life.

Hubble's top 100 photos - the word awesome is seldom used correctly in the literal sense but these photos are awesome!

Interesting - Dr. Jane Goodall believes in Bigfoot.

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- Ricky Gervais really took some shots at people at the Golden Globes. I go back and forth on Gervais from finding him funny to just finding him annoying. Anyway - here's David Bowie poking fun at Ricky Gervais

- Malcolm Gladwell on the difference between creative and noncreative people

- Awesome - if you ever wanted to hear President Lyndon Baines Johnson burp, say bunghole and use the phrase "down where ya nuts hang" then this clip of President Johnson ordering pants is for you

- Some truly awe inspiring photos from the Hubble telescope

- Has Google lost its mojo? What will be the next big thing? Will it be Blekko?

- Reaching one of the last untouched environments on earth. Should it be done?

- Wicked cool - 1964 Dodge Hemi Charger Concept Car