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The National Debt is just a little over one light-year. I don’t know about ya’ll, but I’m feeling a lot better about a National Debt of only one light-year. Our closest star friend, Proxima Centauri, is 4.3 light-years from the Sun. The Canis Major dwarf Galaxy is the nearest to our solar system and it’s 25,000 light-years away. Astronomers who hazard a guess say that the whole universe is a whopping 79 billion light-years across. I think I’ll stop there. (a joke)

That’s why you don’t see airplane pilots (unless they’re gliders) buzzing around tall topographic features like mountains. The downdraft could suck them under. Here’s the thing, folks, lenticular clouds may look like they’re standing still, but they ain’t. These clouds are constantly forming in the updraft and dissipating in the downdraft and sometimes contain winds of 50 knots or more.

What tropical cyclone is next on the horizon, I wonder? That’s easy to find out. First, though, you ought to check out this Western Hemisphere Satellite Map full of tropical depressions and tropical cyclones. It’s rather awesome!

The victorious moment of which I’m speaking happened last night at the Democratic National Convertion, where Barack Obama was hailed by many as one of the greatest orators of our time. Even the critical Pat Buchanan, “right from the beginning”, looked shellshocked. This former presidental candidate called Obama’s acceptance speech the best and most important political convention speech he had ever heard, going back 48 years.

When it comes to clean air around Mount Shasta we’ve been very lucky. The smoke has been hanging somewhere else lately, and I’ve been too lazy to visit my Wundermap to find out exactly where.
Can you see how clean the lines are around the pine needles of last night’s sunset, though? I’m [...]

…when everything goes wrong and you want to curl up and die? How much control do we have over each day? —that is the question.
Yesterday was a doozy. The power, as in electrical, personal and corporate, went on the rampage. My body feels slammed, spirit included.
Waves of electrical Surges (compliments of Pacific [...]

Lately I feel like life is just a whirlwind. In other words, there’s barely enough time to breathe, much less keep in touch with the people I love. The fact is, though, I miss my family so much that talking about ‘em makes me teary-eyed.
You see, folks, I grew up as the oldest of five [...]

Guess what, folks—1 is our pollution level reading for August 12. ONE! Yes, 1, sometimes known as the loneliest number. See, it even looks lonely in Chinese:

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Where oh where has all the smoke gone? Perhaps I will check with esteemed authorities.
Weighing in hot and heavy in the authority department is [...]

It’s very clear and still this Monday morning. Our pollution levels are almost non-existent, but lack of wind is supposed to change all that any minute now.
Sometimes we get these awful smoke burps. They blow in, smother us, shoot our particulate matter levels off the charts then dissipate. It’s weird.
Today’s WunderMap has [...]

Photo taken on Aug. 8, 2008 shows the fireworks of the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games held in the National Stadium, also known as the Bird’s Nest, in north Beijing, China. (Xinhua/Chen Kai)

Photo: Wu Hong/EPA
I’ve tried, Folks, but I can’t imagine how important the Olympics must be to Beijing and the [...]