On Sundays I often try to find some kind of religious issue but I think that after last night’s Rapture Not and the likelihood of reactions all over the place, I’ll sort of go sideways and talk about The Book.  First, let me say that I’m reading two books at the moment.  “The Five Percent: Finding Solutions to Seemingly Impossible Conflicts — with Contributions...

The MATTL  wire and tower system for conveying electricity from Montana wind farms to Canadian cities — and  esp. the problem of where to site it — is both a small issue and a major issue, both an issue from the past and an issue for the future. On the small end, where to put a specific tower is a problem to solve in terms of relationship to the whole line...

From the point of view of the British Empire — which was a strange melding of international corporation, religion, and monarchy (Queen as CEO) –  “Rupert’s Land” in western Canada was simply a feeder for the Hudson’s Bay Company.  The trapper’s trading forts there were profitable until fashions changed away from beaver-fur felt hats.  Then the...