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Monthly Archives: September 2021

It’s time to talk about galactic law

Tuesday, September 7, 2021

Hubble space telescope: the Sombrero Galaxy. Source: Wikimedia Commons “… the parties recognize Mars as a free planet and that no Earth-based government has authority or sovereignty over Martian activities.” — Elon Musk, Starlink terms of service Elon Musk’s long game Before the likes of Elon Musk started swaggering around the solar system, the question […]

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Roastnears

Sunday, September 5, 2021

When I was a young’un growing up in North Carolina’s Yadkin Valley, corn of the type one wants for corn on the cob was called roastnears. I learned in school, around the fifth grade, that roastnears means roasting ears. Back then, I thought of that as just the way people talked. Now I would see […]

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It’s an ill wind that …

Thursday, September 2, 2021

Mabry Mill, running on water from former Hurricane Ida The last week of August felt like the hottest, most humid, and most miserable week of the summer. Late Sunday, Hurricane Ida hit New Orleans. The levees held, and the storm moved north. On Wednesday, what remained of the storm passed over central Tennessee, bringing rain […]

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