Category Archives: General

Utterly deranged tweets of the day

Posted on Tuesday, August 6, 2019 @ 11:47 by Bob Felton

Apparently, the First Felon thinks that our elections may need to be protected from Google.
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Quote for the day

Posted on Tuesday, August 6, 2019 @ 11:02 by Bob Felton

With the arguable exception of George H.W. Bush, every Republican president since 1980 has pushed through tax cuts that disproportionately benefited the 1 percent while trying to defund and/or privatize key social programs like Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and the … Continue reading →

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The end of permafrost

Posted on Sunday, August 4, 2019 @ 13:04 by Bob Felton

When I was a very young engineer, with a specialty in soil mechanics, I seriously considered going to Alaska to study permafrost because frozen ground behaves neither plastically nor elastically; it would be a rare and distinctive specialty. I decided … Continue reading →

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Tweet of the day

Posted on Saturday, August 3, 2019 @ 06:42 by Bob Felton

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Defense procurement by grudge

Posted on Friday, August 2, 2019 @ 11:40 by Bob Felton

It appears that a primary criterion for Department of Defense procurement decisions affecting the safety of American troops is … Donald Trump’s grudges. The White House has instructed newly installed Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper to reexamine the awarding of … Continue reading →

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