Author Archives: Oscar Gordon

This a simple problem to solve.  Don’t mandate health insurance, but require that if you do not have coverage, you had better have a DNR/Living Will on file, and hospitals are not required to do anything but the bare minimum … Continue reading →

And police tactics need to respond to each pattern in a different way.

ACORN closing up shop.

“We haven’t actually gone down this road before,” said Sally Clark, who chairs the Seattle City Council’s land-use committee. “Most [regulatory] systems are not built for innovation.” From here

Courtesy of Marko, we learn of this lovely gent, who, at the time of writing this, should be discussing his significant failings as a decent & intelligent human being with whatever higher power he subscribes to, by way of fatal … Continue reading →

Boeing completes preliminary design work on a Free Electron Laser for the Navy.  I remember when lasers a bare fraction of this kind of power took whole buildings to house.  Gotta love technology.

The Caspian Sea Monster in Drydock, a Russian Wing-in Ground Effect vehicle.  Gotta love those Russians, they sure did like to build ’em big and ugly and tough as bricks.

New foam based on a frog’s nest uses photosynthetic bacteria to capture CO2 and produce fuel. Shove it into an exhaust stack and make sugar (fuel).