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• CHANGING THE WORLD BY TIME TRAVEL WORK WON’T WORK – By Tom Curley

  By tomcurley1 on 2019-11-12 • ( 25 )

  

  So there I was. Thinking. Not quite awake. Not exactly asleep. You know. The funny place between. And it hit me. Fixing all this craziness is simple. The question is WWCKD? Or, to put simply, “WHAT WOULD CAPTAIN KIRK DO?”  If you look at… Read More ›

• ALMOST STAR TREK: STERLING BRONSON RETURNS – BY TOM CURLEY

  By tomcurley1 on 2019-10-04 • ( 19 )

  

  Several of my recent blogs here have been about Star Trek and all of its various iterations. It’s apparently sparked a bit of a trip down memory lane because Marilyn just posted a funny (and true) blog about Star Trek… Read More ›

• AN OPEN LETTER TO HUMANITY FROM PLANET EARTH – BY TOM CURLEY

  By tomcurley1 on 2019-09-26 • ( 4 )

  This last weekend millions of people all over the world went on strike for awareness about Climate Change and that we REALLY have to do something about it. There was lots of talk about how we are destroying the planet. … Read More ›

• TO IMPEACH OR NOT? IS THAT EVEN A QUESTION? NOT ANYMORE – By TOM CURLEY

  By tomcurley1 on 2019-09-25 • ( 6 )

  

  IMPEACHMENT (FINALLY) NOW! As I write this, I’m watching the Speaker of the House of Representatives formally open an impeachment inquiry into the Twitler-in-Chief. What did it take? Well, a whistle-blower went through legal channels and brought a complaint about… Read More ›

• WHAT DO YOU DO WITH A PROBLEM LIKE A MAGAT? – AGAIN! – BY TOM CURLEY

  By tomcurley1 on 2019-09-04 • ( 17 )

  

  Here is another in my unintentional series of re-posting blogs I wrote a year or so ago because they are more relevant today. This happened last week. Ellin and I have a boat. We’ve been at the same Marina for… Read More ›

• DORIEN SHOULD REALLY BE DARWIN – By TOM CURLEY

  By tomcurley1 on 2019-09-02 • ( 13 )

  

  A quote from the weather bureau. A real quote. I am not making this up: IDIOTS SHOULD BE WARNED NOT TO GO OUT INTO THE STORM. I’m not sure why we name hurricanes. I have no idea how the names… Read More ›

• EVERYTHING NEW IS OLD AGAIN – BY TOM CURLEY

  By tomcurley1 on 2019-08-26 • ( 13 )

  If you ever watched the TV series Battlestar Galactica (the newer one, not the original) you’d remember the overall theme of the series was that everything that happened in the show has happened over and over and over again. That’s… Read More ›

• HE’S NOT A MAN, HE’S A CHICKEN, BOO – BY TOM CURLEY

  By tomcurley1 on 2019-08-11 • ( 10 )

  

  So as the surreal non-reality show called Real Life continues, I’ve been reading and hearing all sorts of people saying variations on the same theme. “Is this real?” “Are we in some kind of Tom Clancy novel?” “If you wrote… Read More ›

• THE UNREALITY OF FINDING YOUR WAY HOME – BY TOM CURLEY

  By tomcurley1 on 2019-08-07 • ( 7 )

  AND because this is absolutely relevant to the previous story … here’s one by Tom Curley. I’m not a fan, I’m a zealot. I’ve read all his books. Listened to all the BBC radio series. And watched both movies of… Read More ›

• THE RACIST BONE’S CONNECTED TO THE … HIP BONE? – BY TOM CURLEY

  By tomcurley1 on 2019-08-04 • ( 27 )

  

  “I don’t have a racist bone in my body!” “He doesn’t have a racist bone in his body!” I’ve heard that phrase more times than I can remember over my life. It’s a defense that racist people say when they… Read More ›

• THE RAINBOW BRIDGE – BY TOM CURLEY

  By tomcurley1 on 2019-07-27 • ( 21 )

  

  THE RAINBOW BRIDGE I usually try to be funny or at least amusing when I write these blogs. Sadly, this will not be one of them. Yesterday, my furry grandson Banning crossed the Rainbow Bridge. He was a sweet, wonderful… Read More ›

• HACKING, OPERATING SYSTEMS, AND THE END OF THE WORLD – TOM CURLEY

  By tomcurley1 on 2019-06-20 • ( 31 )

  I watch a lot of television. Probably too much. I’m fond of action shows. I’m really fond of all the various comic book shows. The single thing these shows have in common is they all have at least one computer genius…. Read More ›