Curmudgeons Corner

Random thoughts on politics, current events, popular culture, and whatever else interests me.

Tuesday, March 17, 2026

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NASA Is Making A Nuclear-Powered Dragonfly Helicopter Straight Out Of Dune

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100 years after Robert Goddard's 1st liquid-fueled rocket launch, NASA is using the technology to send astronauts back to the moon

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California drivers say ‘yes, in my back yard’ for offshore oil

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Asteroid Sample Contained All Five Fundamental Units of Life's Genetic Code

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The Coming Age of Space Stations

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Brain Computer Interface Enables Rapid Communication for Two People with Paralysis

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How to Keep Up the Economic Pressure Against Iran

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California Has an Oil and Gas Problem

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The Battle for the Strait of Hormuz

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The Moon, Mars, and Beyond #CommissionEarned

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A Hidden Bone Receptor Could Open The Door To Reversing Osteoporosis

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U.S. Mine Waste Contains Enough Critical Minerals and Rare Earths to Easily End Imports. But Tapping into These Resources Is Anything but Ea...

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Researchers use sunlight to turn plastic waste into vinegar
Monday, March 16, 2026

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Trump briefed that Iran’s new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is probably gay — and president has priceless reaction

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Trump's NASA chief Jared Isaacman reveals why Pluto should be a planet in plan to make it 'great again'

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OSTP taking on space policy coordination work in place of National Space Council

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I read two books at the tender age of 13 that influenced my thinking in subsequent years. One was The Diary of Anne Frank which informed my...

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NASA “cultivates” viruses in space and, upon bringing them back to Earth, discovers that they have become more effective

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The Inevitability of Self-Driving Cars

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Truman, The Bomb and Free Will

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Please drive carefully: scientists plan to transport volatile antimatter for first time

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Trump administration orders restart of oil drilling along California coast amid Iran war

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A Centenary for Rocket Science

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China Has a Lot to Lose in the U.S.-Israel War on Iran

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Put Chuck Schumer on TSA Duty

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The Real Nuclear History of Iran

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Astronomers Just Watched Two Planets Smashing Into Each Other 11,000 Light-Years Away

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Why is it So Hard to Go Back to the Moon? #CommissionEarned

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FAA Approves a Massive Pilot Program That Will Let Electric Air Taxis Fly Across 26 States as Early as This Summer

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Climate Scientists Used the World’s Most Powerful Supercomputers to Find Out if Middle Earth and Westeros Could Actually Exist

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Scientists Want to Build Martian Homes Using Living Bacteria and Astronaut Urine
Sunday, March 15, 2026

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US Intel Showed Even Khamenei Thought Nepo Babytollah Was Incompetent

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Nathan Fillion Says ‘Firefly’ Animated Series In Development With Co-Stars Set To Reprise Roles; Concept Art Revealed

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How Congress became NASA’s partner for the Artemis return to the moon The NASA Reauthorization Act of 2026 has passed the Senate Commerce ...

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The Keystone XL pipeline could come back from the dead in a new form

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To save the West, remember what Romans taught us

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This weird-looking humanoid robot could help China conquer the moon: scientists

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Recycled human waste could turn the dust on Mars and the Moon into fertile soil for crops

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China is developing low-cost lunar cargo options for its expanding moon program

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Something May Be Scrambling Alien Messages, NASA-Funded Research Finds

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UAE Nears Historic Moon Mission As Rashid Rover 2 Heads To US For Launch Preparations Khaleej Times

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The Coming Revolution Down South

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I Traveled Across The Globe To Fact-Check An Oscar-Winning Documentary. Here’s What I Found.

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Gabriella's War: A Vampire Gabriella Novel #CommissionEarned

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NASA begins building nuclear-powered Dragonfly drone for 2028 launch to Saturn moon Titan

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Democrat Senator Suddenly Open to DHS Funding After Michigan Synagogue Attack

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Pravda and the Democrats Are Lying: Operation Epic Fury Strategy Is Brilliant; UPDATE: Iran Opens Strait
Saturday, March 14, 2026

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Will apologies to General Sherman, Henry Clay Work, and my Civil War ancestors. Marching through Iran

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Starliner and Artemis: commercial label vs. commercial discipline

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New strategy intercepts pancreatic cancer by eliminating microscopic lesions before they become cancer

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Arm the Iranian Resistance

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Boeing Starliner : Butch Wilmore Shares Exactly What Happened As He Piloted Starliner

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He Coined The Overview Effect. Now Let's Send Him To Space.

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Breakthrough to Strengthen Bones Could Reverse Osteoporosis

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Children of Apollo (3 book series) #CommissionEarned From Book 1: July, 1969, the crew of Apollo 11 has triumphantly returned to Earth. In ...

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Energy Security for U.S. Allies, Courtesy of Alaska

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An Easy Fix to a Clinton Energy Error

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Opposing Trump Isn’t a Global Strategy
Friday, March 13, 2026

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Trump deploys space technology in Operation Epic Fury

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Jared Isaacman Is Launching NASA into a New Era

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Energy Secretary Backs Restart of Indian Point Nuclear Plant in NY

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Pentagon Eyes Cislunar Space As Next Strategic Frontier

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How to build a moon base

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Nasa plans to have a permanent base on the Moon by 2030 – how it can be done

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NASA clears its Artemis moon rocket for an April launch with four astronauts following repairs

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Trump’s Energy Triumph

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Iran War Will Lower Energy Prices

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Partisanship on Iran Is Dangerous for America

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A Brother on the Moon #CommissionEarned On a December day in 1967, a pilot whose jet fighter is in the process of cracking up ejects a mome...

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Patton in Palestine #CommissionEarned Having survived World War II and returned to America, General George S. Patton is given a new assignm...

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The further adventures of Anne Frank: An alternate history of a life uninterrupted #CommissionEarned Tom Fischer thought he had seen every ...

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Exxon Joins the Texas Corporate Migrants

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Keeping Up With the Jones Act

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Will Trump ‘Fight to Win’ in Iran?

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SpaceX’s Enters a new era with Booster 19 Testing on Pad 2
Thursday, March 12, 2026

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Israeli Drones Striking IRGC Goons in the Streets

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NASA Trials AI Medical Imaging Aboard ISS to Reduce Reliance on Ground Support

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Curing Cancer Would Produce A $185 TRILLION Economic Windfall

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Firefly Aerospace Successfully Launches Alpha Flight 7

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Johns Hopkins Scientists Engineer Nanoparticles Able to Seek and Destroy Diseased Immune Cells

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Don’t Bank on a Texas Blue Wave

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To Squeeze Iran, Trump Reaches Into the Geoeconomic Toolkit

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Khamenei Cemented the U.S.-Israel Alliance

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America’s Strategic Oil Exports

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A Dog Once Sniffed Cancer in the Husband. Years Later, it Saved the Wife too

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Straight to the Point: NASA’s Administrator Jared Isaacman and the launch of Artemis II

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The Last Moonwalker and Other Stories #CommissionEarned

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From Garbage to Groceries: Giant Dome in Britain Uses Landfill Gas to Grow Food All Year

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“Father of AI” Yann Lecun Raises $1 Billion With Startup Betting That the Industry Is Wrong

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Does Red Light Therapy Actually Work? This “Biohacker Fad” May Have Something to It
Wednesday, March 11, 2026

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William Shatner To Undergo Surgery After Horrific Fall Off Horse All prayers for William Shatner. He was great in Boston Legal, not to ment...

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Mark R. Whittington -- Books

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Mark R. Whittington articles

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NASA administrator talks to Science about studying the Moon, Mars—and Earth

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How Jagged Moon Dust Could Support Future Astronauts

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This SpaceX veteran says the next big thing in space is satellites that return to Earth

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The First Liquid-Fueled Rocket Launched 100 Years Ago

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Humans Probably Weren't the First Life Forms to Land on the Moon

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26 States to Begin Electric Aircraft Trials This Summer

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Blood Test Predicts Dementia in Women as Many as 25 Years Before Symptoms Begin

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The Forgotten 444 Days in Tehran

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Why is America Going Back to the Moon (How America went to the moon, stopped, and is returning again) #CommissionEarned

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Listening to Music Could Slash Your Dementia Risk by Nearly 40%

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Large Veterans Study Shows How GLP-1 Weight Loss Drugs Could Treat Addiction

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Astrophysicist Has a Plan to Launch a Chip-Sized, Laser-Powered Spacecraft Toward a Nearby Black Hole and Wait 100 Years for It to Send a Si...
Tuesday, March 10, 2026

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NASA and SpaceX disagree about manual controls for lunar lander

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Developing Robust Electronics That Can Withstand Harsh Conditions on Cold Planetary Bodies

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Vladimir Putin plotting 'ambitious' space missions to Venus and Moon

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China's 1st moon astronauts could land in Rimae Bode, a 'geological museum' on the lunar near side

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How Nasa contractors are pressing on to bring humans to the moon with Artemis

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How America’s Oil and Gas Dominance Has Weakened Iran

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TerraPower gets OK to start construction of its first nuclear plant

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Mojtaba Khamenei Brings Monarchy Back to Iran

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Iran’s Lionesses Roar With Silence

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The Moon, Mars, and Beyond: Two Tales from the Coming Space Age #CommissionEarned

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Zoox starts mapping Dallas and Phoenix for its robotaxis

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Researchers Reverse Symptoms of Autism in Mice

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Scientists Shot Bacteria With a Gas Gun to See if Life Could Survive Being Flung From Mars. It Barely Flinched
Monday, March 09, 2026

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Endless Void Studios Unveils Launch Party Ahead of NASA's Artemis II

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What is best in life? King Conan, at last.

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Accelerating Artemis

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The Man Who Loves To Tax

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How Giant Freakin’ Lasers Can Save The World

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Is It Time for a Second “Small Step” Act?

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How Former NASA Boss and ULA Tried to KILL SpaceX - But FAILED Miserably

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Is Iran on the Brink of Another Revolution?

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AI in Trump’s 3-D Chess Match

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How America’s Oil and Gas Dominance Has Weakened Iran

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Trump Can Win Something Greater Than the Nobel Peace Prize

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The Medicaid Autism Racket

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Hybrid ‘super foam’: tunable, lightweight and ultra-durable

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Why is it So Hard to Go Back to the Moon? #CommissionEarned

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These robots are born to run — and never die

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MIT’s “Satellite Livers” Can Be Injected Directly Into the Belly and Save Patients Needling Transplants

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Physicists Simulate Legendary Ideal Glass for the First Time: It’s Hard Like a Diamond But Looks Like a Liquid
Sunday, March 08, 2026

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Isaacman makes his mark by revamping the Artemis return to the moon NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman recently announced a revamping of the...

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Chinese scientists use AI model to crack mystery of moon’s far side

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This Company Is Launching A Hypersonic Rocket That Could Actually Compete With SpaceX

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NASA must delay deorbiting the ISS, U.S. lawmakers say

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Honest Real Time Answers From NASA

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Gabriella's War: A Vampire Gabriella Novel #CommissionEarned

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Exclusive-Iran spent years fostering proxies in Iraq. Now, many aren’t eager to join the war

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Cracks in Iranian Regime Becoming Chasms

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US and Venezuela reach historic agreement to re-establish diplomatic ties
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