Anyone with an IQ higher than a rutabaga knows that Hunter Biden's job on the board at the Ukrainian gas company was a farce designed buy influence, but I hadn't realized that Biden didn't even go to the board meetings.

This article is a review of a video arguing for intelligent design. The Cambrian explosion is pretty difficult to explain with evolutionary theory.

As you may recall, the 6-mile wide Chicxulub asteroid collision wiped out the dinosaurs and most of the rest of the land creatures on earth about 66 million years ago. But what about the fishes? Shouldn't they be fine down in the cool ocean? Well, it turns out the asteroid also created an acid rain that wiped out most of the marine life at the same time. The article is worth linking to just to see the illustration in the NY Times of the crater.

And here's a follow-up article about the remarkably quick rise of the mammals after the extinction of the dinosaurs.

How important is impeachment to voters in Iowa?  It turns out it's only important to 7% of them.

It seems that anybody who can is moving out of San Francisco because it costs too much to have a life.

The top James Bond films rated from worst to best.

If you are dying to know more details from Ronan Farrow's new book: "Catch and Kill", click this review.

The Aye-Aye in Madagascar has a pseudo-thumb to help him grip things. The rest of his hand is kind of interesting also.

An interesting photo of the Milky Way and other objects reflected in a rain-covered salt flat. Be sure and click on the photo to expand it.

In the latest Democrat debate, Biden bragged about defeating eminently qualified Robert Bork as a Supreme Court justice. This article has some excellent history for younger readers, espeically as the beginnings of the discourse we have in politics today.

Rolling Stone produces a list of the 100 best singers of all time. This author takes exception. You can read the list for yourself here.  As usual, Iowa Pundit had the best take on it:



The loudest bird in the world is the white bellbird. Listen here.

By the time you read this, it's probably too late to win Pete Buttigieg's contest for a free trip to San Francisco (the gay mecca) to see Hamilton with Pete's husband.

Frustrated with your Internet service? Fast affordable Internet is coming in 2020.

Probably you'll want to read this taste test of six vegetable-based hamburgers from the NY Times.