Poor Lachezar Filipov. On November 26, 2009, London’s Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail reported that Filipov, deputy director of the Space Research Institute (NASA equivalent) of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, had announced that, “aliens are currently all around us, and are watching us all the time.” He claimed that he and a team of […]
Even as I write this, snowflakes are falling from the sky at the rate of maybe one flake per 1,000 cubic feet of air. My friend in Tryon (about 30 miles north of here) reports two inches, though, so maybe more is headed our way. Doubtful, but maybe. Meanwhile, Coal Creek is selling like hotcakes. […]
There’s a passage in the Sinclair Lewis novel It Can’t Happen Here that I’ve flagged. It’s about the fragility of social order, but on this particular day it reminds me of my bipolar friend … “… The crust of learning and good manners and tolerance is so thin! It would take just a few thousand big shells and gas bombs […]
