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1. 10 days ago on Scott Stantis

   You’re way late. The New Deal coalition came apart in 1968. Since then, the entire nonrich, nonbusiness coalition has changed.

2. 10 days ago on Michael Ramirez

   As bad as Nixonomics was (Phase I and Phase II at the time), it took Reaganomics to destroy my finances. Apparently, having an MBA scares wimpy job interviewers. Thus, I’m currently forced into semiretirement with my seasonal job at H&R Block and gave into Social Security on full retirement, but years before I’d planned to take it. I didn’t give up finding other employment yet, but even taking a course in and getting certified in QuickBooks last year hasn’t helped. So, now I can go back and find out where I went wrong until tax season begins again. I still must take courses to work for them every year.

3. 10 days ago on Michael Ramirez

   Mister Procopio must have missed that one. Not surprising, for he didn’t like it when I brought up the Harvest Moon, among other items, in 1971-2. He was right about one thing. — He told my mother I’d become a great scientist or a professional student (as if there be such a thing). Only recently did I discover there’s also an opposite moon in March, in which the moon rises more than 50 minutes later each night. I should have figured that one out in 1971-2, or at least after I took physics!

4. 10 days ago on Clay Bennett

   I have even written an article in LinkedIn on my four objections to the metric system: kilograms is mass, not weight, giga- should be pronounced jiga, parsecs should replace lightyears, and cgs should disappear, leaving only mks. Obviously, astronomy is my oldest science because astronomers still uses cgs and lightyears. I tell people how much easier metric is, the new prefixes zepto, yocto, zetta, and yotta, and using millions of kilometers could simply be gigameters. (150 for the distance of the sun-earth) and billions of kilometers could be terameters (Pluto is around 6 of those from the sun.).Chemistry is my favorite science, so sometimes a nonaccepted measurement may be tolerated, like Ångstroms (which should be pronounce Ohngstroms) for the distances of atoms in molecules. Since I took organic chemistry in 1976-7, Joules have overtake calories, so the stability of molecules are now in kilojoules instead of kilocalories.Liquids are a cinch because a liter is a cubic decimeter, so a kiloliter is a cubic meter (stere). Who really wants to memorize how many gallons of water in a cubic feet or yard?

5. 11 days ago on Michael Ramirez

   I bought that record in June 1969. The other side is “Lodi”, and it still plays.

6. 11 days ago on Michael Ramirez

   Wrong…eventually no matter where one is on earth, there will be an early morning before sunrise when a waning crescent moon will rise a few hours earlier. I confirmed it as a freshman in high school in Earth/Space Science class around early 1972. My interest in astronomy began in late 1967.

7. 11 days ago on Clay Bennett

   When this country was suppose to metricize at the bicentennial, I declared my independence of the English system with Britain and the Commonwealth Nations. After taking and auditing science and engineering courses, I refused to use the archaic system around 45 years ago. I can easily convert Fahrenheit to Celsius almost instantaneously for ambient temperatures. In April 1977, I was in an organic chemistry lab, and the professor asked what 35º — the boiling point of ethyl ether — was in Fahrenheit. (It is exactly) 95º — I said without even thinking. So, today it’s hot enough to boil ethyl ether — 38º (and above human body temperature at 37.0º)!

8. 11 days ago on Dana Summers

   The next one won’t have Aileen Cannon’s providing cover.

9. 11 days ago on Jeff Stahler

   More likely “Sieg heil für den lieben Führer!” He just forgot to have his hand open and straight up.

10. 11 days ago on Michael Ramirez

    The waning crescent moon rises well past midnight.