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The State of Maine s the third of five National Security Multi-Mission Vessels built for the U.S. Maritime Administration to train merchant mariners. [...]
A Falcon 9 rocket topped with a classified payload for the National Reconnaissance Office launched from Florida's east coast early Thursday. [...]
Republican Senators postponed a vote on Todd Blanche's nomination as attorney general amid concerns over his handling of the Trump-IRS settlement. [...]
In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed Medicare into law, dedicating it to former President Harry Truman, who "planted the seeds of compassion." [...]
A federal jury on Wednesday convicted the New Jersey man who attempted to murder writer Salmon Rushdie on additional terrorism-related charges. [...]
This illustration depicts charged particles from a solar storm stripping away charged particles of Mars' atmosphere, one of the processes of Martian atmosphere loss studied by NASA's MAVEN mission. [...]
NASA astronaut Chris Williams is seen outside the Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft after he landed with Expedition 74 Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov, and Sergei Mikaev in a remote area near the [...]
From left, Expedition 74 flight engineers Anna Kikina and Pyotr Dubrov of Roscosmos, and Anil Menon of NASA pose for a portrait while holding a cake celebrating their recent arrival [...]
Crews at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans transport the 130-foot-tall liquid hydrogen tank out of a production cell inside the main factory building into a detached test building on [...]
Messier 94 is a spiral galaxy with a bright inner ring around it, called a starburst ring, where new stars are forming. [...]
• Fox-Dominion trial delay 'is not unusual,' judge says • Fox News' defamation battle isn't stopping Trump's election lies [...]
The judge just announced in court that a settlement has been reached in the historic defamation case between Fox News and Dominion Voting Systems. [...]
A settlement has been reached in Dominion Voting Systems' defamation case against Fox News, the judge for the case announced. The network will pay more than $787 million to Dominion, [...]
Category Archives: current events
KipCast 7/27/2026
Healthcare, dead swans, lighter fluid, car accidents.
KipCast 7/8/2026
Family Guy vs. South Park: 2026
Now, we aren’t even going to mention The Simpsons because…while I’m sure it’s still on in some bizarre format…I think it is now created in the manner one would recreate Shakespeare (with luck) using a million apes on keyboards. That’s … Continue reading
Happy X-Day
Some celebrate X-Day on the 4th; most on the 5th. And off I go into the haze of X-Day 2026… (Note: You are not a Subgenius if you don’t get this image. The cult has become diluted. I HATE when … Continue reading
Donation Page Now Open
Yes, you can now donate to me and keep me in booze, prostitutes, crap tables, the site running, and so on…let Ralph Williams explain, as he does on my donation page:
KipCast Inaugural Episode 6/12/2026
Forty minutes of yours truly rambling on in the afternoon.
Framingham, Monday, April 27, 2026 — Spring
Happy 70th, Steven Wright!
A happy birthday (Dec 6th) to Steven Wright, who is turning 70 this year. A classic but little-known Wright quote: “First you don’t exist. At all. Then you’re born, and you live your whole life. Then you die. Then you … Continue reading
Ozone Layer Rebuilding Itself
That’s right, according to NASA and NOAA, the hole in the ozone layer is the fifth smallest since 1992 and is estimated to be fully repaired by midcentury. Apparently the difference can even be easily seen from space. Well, we … Continue reading
“A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving” (1973)
Hey, folks — tradition. I always used to watch “A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving” on Thanksgiving (and it contains a good brief history of the holiday for kids — or anybody). It’s not anywhere on public television anymore, but…for Thanksgiving…here you … Continue reading
