EtceteraA weblog by Jack HodgsonH.L. Mencken Quote- June 27, 2008 "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed -- and hence clamorous to be led to safety -- by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." -- H.L. Mencken, writer, editor, and critic (1880-1956)...http://www.jackhodgson.com/weblog/archives/04/002320.html Quote: Louis L'Amour- June 24, 2008 "Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen." -- Louis L'Amour, novelist (1908-1988)...http://www.jackhodgson.com/weblog/archives/04/002319.html Finale from The Empire Strikes Back- June 5, 2008 I just love watching people make music. I wish I could do this....http://www.jackhodgson.com/weblog/archives/04/002318.html They may have landed on an ice field!- June 1, 2008 This is so cool. The latest Mars exploration mission, NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander, has as one of its biggest goals to find ice. And it turns out that not only may they have landed right on some, but their landing rockets may have done the work of blowing the topsoil off of it, exposing it to Phoenix's cameras. Check it out!...http://www.jackhodgson.com/weblog/archives/04/002317.html |