Curmudgeons Corner
Random thoughts on politics, current events, popular culture, and whatever else interests me.
Monday, April 07, 2025
Sunday, April 06, 2025
Now that Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are safe home on Earth, NASA and Boeing are turning to the original cause of their extended stay on the International Space Station.
Saturday, April 05, 2025
Friday, April 04, 2025
Thursday, April 03, 2025
Wednesday, April 02, 2025
Now also in audiobook
Tuesday, April 01, 2025
Monday, March 31, 2025
Sunday, March 30, 2025
President Trump’s campaign to excise Diversity Equity and Inclusion from the federal government has had some controversial effects on NASA messaging. According to Ars Technica, language referring to the “first woman and the first person of color” to walk on the moon has been removed from the Artemis program website.
In 1944, with the world convulsed with war, the Contessa Gabriella Doria haunts the piazzas and canals of Venice. Few people know that she is not only an agent for Britain’s MI6 but that she is also a 450 year old vampire. But one SS officer, Kurt Hesselman, knows and has vowed to destroy her, using the occult powers he was born with. Their battle will rage from Gabriella’s beloved Venice to occupied France, and hence to Great Britain on the eve of the largest sea borne invasion in history. The outcome of the war and the fate of the world will hang in the balance. Now also in audiobook.