Author Archives: MXH

I’m planning a trip to Columbia later this year, and stopped by (among other sites) the official Proexport Columbia tourism site. There I saw what I take to be Columbia’s official tourism tagline: Columbia, the only risk is wanting to … Continue reading →

Walking through a supermarket parking lot, I saw a large, misshapen woman buckling her unfortunate son into his government-mandated child seat. “Now we’re going to wait here for Daddy for about half an hour,” she said. “Just like always.” What … Continue reading →

A few thoughts on the unpleasantness in Tuscon. Libel First of all, the initial attempts to draw a connection between conservative commentators and politicians and the shooting were not only ridiculous, but, in hindsight, transparently disingenuous. Not only was there … Continue reading →

I like the idea of space exploration. I like the idea of Lunar or Martian colonies. (Interesting question as to whether those those adjectives should be capitalized or not; I guess so, since “Luna” and “Mars” are place names, and … Continue reading →

Since I turned on comments in mid-December, I’ve accumulated several thousand spam comments. (Hopefully, you haven’t seen any of them.) The signal-to-noise ratio is just crushing, and I need to rethink my approach to the problem. So comments are going … Continue reading →