Watch Hill, Rhode Island

 The Aphrodite.

$40 Trillion in Debt

The United States National Debt now exceeds $40 trillion, doubling in less than a decade.

Servicing the debt now costs more than $1 trillion a year. 

Absolute madness.

Plead the Fifth

It's Now Safer in the Water

George Washington at the Barber

 

America at 250

250 Years of Liberty

Margaret Bourke-White's 1952 photograph of the Statue of Liberty for Look magazine, shot from a helicopter.

 

Menemsha Post Office

People associate Norman Rockwell's paintings and illustrations with the Saturday Evening Post. Though not as prolific, Stevan Dohanos, an artist who lived and worked in Westport, Connecticut, also captured mid-20th century America's small towns and people.

His painting of the Menemsha Post Office on Martha's Vineyard is currently on view and is for sale at the Granary Gallery in West Tisbury. 

Almost Walking

AI

Bubbles!

 

Iran's Nuclear Resolve

 

Immigration

Artemis 2 Moon Mission

AI?

 

The New York Times Publishes a Correction

The NYT published an article yesterday about NATO by veteran journalist Steven Erlanger, the paper's chief diplomatic correspondent for Europe. It led to the following correction.

The mistake was a real boner.

The updated story set things straight.

The Final Frontier

Fake News

The Wealth of Nations

Adam Smith's "An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of The Wealth of Nations" was published in London 250 years ago on March 9, 1776. 

Smith's book is just as relevant and thought-provoking today.

Red Blood Moon

Lunar eclipse over New York City.

 

More Snow!

Snow, Snow, and More Snow

Winter Storm Hernando dumped 18 inches of snow over the NYC-metro area less than a month after Winter Storm Fern dropped more than 16 inches.

72 Years Ago

Presidents' Day

First Valentine's Day

Valentine's Tablet

Punxsutawney Phil

Winter Storm Fern

 

The Most Connecticut Man in the World

Shades of 1980's The Official Preppy Handbook.

NASA Artemis II Boarding Pass

NASA's Artemis II mission's Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion spacecraft's crew will be the first to orbit the moon since the Apollo 17 moon landing in 1972.

Scott Adams, RIP

Obituary and reader comments from The New York Times.

Gutfeld! – Remembering Scott Adams

The White House – Rest in Peace, Scott Adams

B12 Deficiency