STICKER RESIDUE
Removing sticker residue is one of the banes of everyone’s existence. Why can’t someone invent a sticker glue that works, but that can be peeled …
Golden Fleece Award
My third Golden Fleece Award goes to U.S. Senator Rick Scott from Florida for his 11-point plan to “Rescue America”. He claims in the introduction …
POPULATION GROWTH
Population growth will lead to disaster. The First Law of Sustainability is “Population growth and/or growth in the rates of consumption of resources cannot be …
THE DEMISE OF THE TANK – UPDATED
I wrote a blog in November 2020 about the demise of the tank. I said that about every five years a story surfaces that predicts …
HAILSTONES
When I first moved to Colorado, one of the things that totally amazed me was the size of the hailstones that occasionally pounded the area. …
TL-29
A TL-29 pocketknife, or penknife, is something that most males in the western world grow up with. Penknife is the British English term for a …
RUSSO-UKRAINIAN WAR
I don’t normally present a full article in “Connecting the Dots” but this one is such a good analysis of the Russo-Ukrainian War that it …
WISHFUL THINKING
I thought it was time for a little wishful thinking. After the doom and gloom of the past three weeks it is time to think …
LAST OF THE LINE
Cristina Calderón, the last of the line of the Yaghan people, died on February 16, 2022, aged 93. The Yaghan were an amphibious people …
DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME
Waking up at my usual time this morning to the sun shining in my face, instead of darkness, brought the subject of Daylight Savings Time …