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The Dow Jones Industrial Average hit a record high again Tuesday as oil prices dropped amid hopes that the Strait of Hormuz could soon reopen. [...]
Hundreds gathered Tuesday in Gaza City to mourn more than 100 people killed in 2023 in one of the deadliest Israeli military strikes of the war. [...]
Federal health officials on Tuesday urged states to tighten oversight of autism therapy providers, as Medicaid costs rise sharply amid fears of fraud. [...]
U.S. and Qatari officials said Tuesday that progress has been made in talks to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, but a final deal is not yet in place. [...]
The deadly Eaton Fire that devastated Southern California in 2025 was caused by equipment from the local utility company, investigators said Tuesday. [...]
Relatively low tidal waters expose sandflats and mudflats in the Bijagós Archipelago of Guinea-Bissau in this image acquired on November 28, 2025, with the OLI (Operational Land Imager) on Landsat [...]
NASA opened its newest wind tunnel, the Flight Dynamics Research Facility at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, on Friday, providing a critical resource for the agency and its [...]
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) reveals the nearby galaxy Centaurus A, exposing the dusty structures and hidden activity that shape this unusual system. [...]
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 [...]
• 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: holidays
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:
Happy New Year 2026 (Snow Squall in Framingham, MA)
Well, happy New Year! I woke up to this, which was sort of nice:
SCROOGE: A CHRISTMAS CAROL (1951) — Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas Eve — though, sort of Merry Christmas, to me, because as I got older, my family tended to celebrate on Christmas Eve and then just have a meal on Christmas Day. Presents were Christmas Eve as well. On … Continue reading
Happy Winter Solstice (and Winter)!
Celebrating the shortest day of the year, because it only gets better from here. Well, at least in this area of the world. I hope. I don’t want to head into that Asimov story “Nightfall” or anything. So, to the … Continue reading
Christmas Wrapping — The Waitresses (1982)
Well, it’s the season, and you’re bound to hear this somewhere (I heard it in the supermarket yesterday) so why not listen to it here?
