3 Reasons Human Space Travel is a LARP (Will Not Happen)

Here's an awesome place where we are not going.  Mars.  Read on to find out why.

10 Things to do about ICE (with a bonus #11)

Masked death squad from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) gestapo unit harassing a cameraman in Chicago.  These goons are on the streets of cities across America.  What to do about them?

 

Clown College

Masked moron from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) goes to slip and fall school in Minneapolis, days after another ICE goon murdered local resident Renee Good.

 

Let's Talk About Sex Robots

Thee Optimist wrote this novel more than a decade ago, in the guise of his alter ego, the author Patrick Quinlan.  It is a thriller about mind downloading and humanoid robots.  Mind downloading is still pretty far out.  Listen to a ten-year-old podcast about these emerging technologies.

Reflections on Death (with the legendary Rutger Hauer)

Dutch actor Rutger Hauer as Roy Batty, in the 1982 science fiction film Blade Runner.

Doh !!!

 

Drone shot of the White House with the East Wing utterly destroyed, on October 23, 2025.