I thought… for a minute there… that the U.S. was at war with Iran…
Author: Louis Cannon
Underrated writer Louis Cannon grew up in the vast American West, although his ex-wife, given the slightest opportunity, will deny that he ever grew up at all. You can read more stories on his Substack account.
READY, FIRE, AIM: Meta Makes Its Escape from the Oakland Courtroom
Seems to me Meta got off easy when they settled the Oakland case…
READY, FIRE, AIM: Live Free or… You Know… Like, Die
Like I said, freedom comes in various shades. I suspect Major General John Stark would agree…
READY, FIRE, AIM: The Cold, Hard Truth About the Colorado River
The photo shared at the top of this column shows Nevada, but it could easily be Arizona….
READY, FIRE, AIM: Faster than the Speed of Hydrogen
“It’s magic to be able to showcase this technology, and to showcase how good the engineering is…”
READY, FIRE, AIM: Laughing Along with Republicans
How can we keep from laughing? There’s probably nothing as funny as a transfer of wealth…
READY, FIRE, AIM: How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Climate Change
But every cloud has a silver lining. There’s always a balance…
READY, FIRE, AIM: Phil Weiser Goes Big, Against Meta
Unfortunately, I probably won’t see any of the profits from the settlement…
READY, FIRE, AIM: Silence is Golden… Duct Tape is Silver…
How much is silence worth now… in the 21st century?
READY, FIRE, AIM: The Turing Test, and the Cyanide Apple
“However, the apple was so artfully made that only the red cheek was poisoned…”
READY, FIRE, AIM: Middle-Aged Americans, Falling Behind
Earlier this year, journalist Joe Rojas-Burke wrote about this “falling behind” problem…
READY, FIRE, AIM: Jimmy and PawPaw, on the Back Porch
Political campaigning is more an art than a science, and I’m a big fan of art… especially movies…
READY, FIRE, AIM: The World’s Worst Billionaire
Other billionaires who qualified, but sadly enough didn’t win: Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison (and his son David), and Peter Thiel…
READY, FIRE, AIM: Verne, a Big Patriot
Hundreds of people gathered for the ribbon cutting, when the nutcracker’s name and exact height were revealed to the crowd…
READY, FIRE, AIM: Dr. Fauci Pleads the Fifth
It seems that a U.S. Senator from Kentucky, Dr. Rand Paul, had released 1,100 unredacted pages from Dr. Fauci’s professional diary…
READY, FIRE, AIM: Enjoying the Warmth
The oil painting shared above is titled ‘Coalbrookdale by Night’, as rendered by British artist Philip James de Loutherbourg in 1801….
READY, FIRE, AIM: Drones in the School Hallways
The drones themselves work for free, of course. They just need to have their batteries charged now and then…
READY, FIRE, AIM: Peanut Butter as Art
I can’t claim to be an art expert, but I know art when I see it…
READY, FIRE, AIM: Not That Kind of ‘Fire’
Marshal Michel Ney was sentenced to death by firing squad for his role supporting the brief return of Napoleon Bonaparte from exile in 1815…