Cheney '94: Invading Baghdad Would Create Quagmire C-SPAN

What happened to Cheney's sense of reason after 1994?

Photo of the Day - Dragon Post on Xian City Wall

Although Xi'an (China) is most famous for the terra cotta warriors, we were impressed with the intact city wall. On the wall are these dragon lantern posts, very stylized and attractive.

Space Based Solar Power

Photo of the Day - Hong Kong Ceiling

This is the beautiful ceiling in one area of the Harbourside shopping center in Hong Kong, an ultramodern enclosed center with high class brand name stores beyond my means and an incredible contrast to the more traditional Hong Kong shops just a couple of blocks away, those much more familiar to me from my visit there 25 years ago.

Space based Solar Power

Think about the possibility of unlimited solar power beamed from space. This idea is not new, but in light of the dwindling oil reserves, Mid East unrest, and increasing world energy demands, an office at the Pentagon and a group of scientists and interested parties including astronaut Buzz Aldrin are advocating the development of this energy source. A press conference at the National Press Club in Washington DC presented the interim report. Accounts of the conference are online, including audio from NPR, and the interim report is also available. If you are interested in this exciting possibility, please see the Sites for Curious Minds section on the right side of this blog, or Google "space based solar power" and Pentagon for more.

Photo of the Day - Water Buffalo

Along the Li River near Guilin, China, we saw many mother water buffalo with calves.

Photo of the Day - Beijing Panda

This panda in the Beijing Zoo was quite the performer. We were fortunate to be there early in the day when he was active, climbing and seemingly posing. Ever seen a dirty panda? It was wet and rainy, and some of the pandas had gotten their pretty white coats quite mussed up, but this fellow was still looking spiffy.