Jerry Stratton's Blog

In modern cosmology, the attempt to explain the big bang and the weird friendliness of the universe toward life, is dangerously close to the old joke about turtles all the way down.

Frigidaire, five years after losing their dominance to General Electric, and four years into the Great Depression. Elegance and thrift: they still can’t bring themselves to say why economization is necessary “under the same conditions which you, yourself, will encounter”.

Reichenau Gap is just past London on the way to Junction. It’s a view of hills, because that’s what the gap is through.

Eddie Doucette returned to NBC television in 1954 after a year-long hiatus in favor of the Pope family.

In this sequel to last year’s Flashing Blades adventure, French naval officers invade a strangely disabled Mirror Universe Enterprise. Mirror Universe Trek characters must discover what’s wrong and deal with the intruders at the same time.

“Pay homage to the plucky emigrant from Hanover who had, indeed, planted his roots deep in Texas soil—the land of his choice.”

My New Year’s resolution to focus on the cookbooks I already own resulted in a very quick script to convert simple lists to a simple tab-delimited file.

Today is National Potato Day. Why not have some potato chips or hash browns, and top them with one or both of these easy-to-make dips/sauces? They’re great on chips, on a baked potato, or in a potato salad—or with just about any vegetable or thick stew.

The British Grenadiers provides an interesting period melody for The Rifleman’s Song at Bennington; also, the original 1837 Rifleman’s Song lyrics from The New-York Mirror.

“To commemorate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas delivered a special lecture at The University of Texas at Austin, followed by a moderated Q&A with questions from students.” “I was proud to say that I was American by birth, and Georgian by the grace of God.”

Clarence Thomas delivered a wonderful hour-long lecture on the Declaration of Independence, touching on the Founders, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

“When you lived in a segregated world with palpable discrimination and the governments nearest to you enforced laws and customs that promoted unequal treatment, it was obvious that your rights or your dignity did not come from those governments, but rather from God.”