Saturday, November 6, 2021

What is the simplest, oldest flight instrument for an aircraft?

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It’s called a yaw string – a 6” length of yarn taped to the center of the windshield at one end to indicate the direction...
Saturday, October 30, 2021

100 of the funniest quotes from the past century

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                                At the Reader’s Digest web site there is an article by Lucie Terkel on October 26, 202...
Friday, October 29, 2021

Sun Tzu did not write the Zen Book of War

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                                        In a previous blog post on October 10, 2021 I had asked Can you trust a blog pos...
Thursday, October 28, 2021

What sort of media coverage did we get at a worst moment?

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  The mass shootings on October 25, 2021 at the Boise Towne Square mall are an example of media coverage. Our newspapers a...
Friday, October 22, 2021

When will Donald Trump be declared to have won the state of Arizona in the 2020 presidential election?

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                        As shown above, that will be when pigs fly. Results were Biden 1,672,143 (49.4%), Trump 1,661688 ...
Tuesday, October 19, 2021

Were those audience figures inflated?

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                  Not just figuratively, as was described in an article by Matt Ford on January 21, 2017 at The Atlantic...
Monday, October 18, 2021

Favorite candies for Halloween

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                  Halloween will arrive at the end of the month, so our thoughts turn again to candy. But which candy is ...