Istvan the Mad

It's April 30. On this day in 1789, George Washington took the oath of office and became the first elected President of the United State...

It's a great day for the movies. Oscar-winning actors Spencer Tracy , Bette Davis , and Gregory Peck were all born on this day. And the...

Two years. Two years since I last posted here- I just noticed that this morning. What happened?? I asked myself. Well... I tried to swea...

Two very interesting takes on crisis: look on the bright side VS this is not OK . Really, these are great reads. One author details the...

This is why using robots on the battlefield is not as good an idea as it might seem. I think that story pretty much speaks for itself. * ...

I'm goin crazy over here! So much to do. It's times like these that really make me feel like I have Multiple Personality Disorder,...

I have a new motto: "You wouldn't believe me if I told you." This is the last week before production week of Our Town . I...

OK, geez . After an embarrassingly long time of trying to have a website of my own, not-doing-so-well, trying again, still not doing so we...

Let's talk about cell phones. I'll start: I hate them. They are bad for us, and I'm not talking about ear cancer. They make us...

Kansas, you are embarrassing your country . Seriously: do you care so little for your neighbors? Stop being heartless. This is inhumane. ...

Don't give me this "health care rationing" bullshit. That's right: it's bullshit . Health care is already rationed in...

Watch this . Note how the "scientist" insists that, while he can't identify the object, it is not a "UFO," or in ot...

Today is the Fourteenth of July. True story : on this day in 1990 the small uninhabited island of Eynhallow off Rousay in the Orkneys playe...

I'm sensing a really fundamental problem here, in the way President Obama is handling the Bush administration's admission of having ...

Because things haven't been quite weird enough lately... One weirdness! Two weirdnesses! Ah, hahaha! Three weirdnesses! Ahahahahaha!...

Expanding Consciousness... is this consciousness? In a sense, I'd have to say: yeah . Looks like a bad day to be a vegetarian -for mo...

You've probably heard by now that some guys locked up in Gitmo have claimed credit for 9/11. From the very instant I heard the 'new...

Today is the Third of March. On this day in 1972, police officer Ray Schoke was on his way to Loveland, Ohio, when he spotted a three-foot-...

Today is the Seventeenth of February. Happy Quirinalia ! In ancient Rome, a celebration of Quirinus, the deified form of Romulus, one of t...

In 1923, Howard Carter unsealed the burial chamber of Tutankhamun . In 1943, students belonging to the White Rose Society posted a sign in...

Last day of Lupercalia (ancient Rome). In 1564, Galileo Galilei was born. In 1571, Michael Praetorius was born. In 1764, the city of St. ...

Today is the Fourteenth of February. Why do we spell 14 "fourteen," but 40 "forty"? It's not a joke, it's a le...

Today is the Eleventh of February. On this day in 1355, the St. Scholastica’s Day Riot continued in Oxford, England, after a dispute betw...

Today is the Ninth of February. On this day in 1825, John Quincy Adams was elected President, in the first election to be decided by the U...

Waitangi Day (New Zealand- marking the 1840 signing of a Maori-Britain treaty). In 1564, Christopher Marlowe was (probably) born. In 1895,...