All is revealed

Ah!  This story about the mighty Mia Love:

She is taking on six-term congressman Jim Matheson, who currently holds the distinction of being a Democrat representing one of the most Republican districts in the country.

explains this head-scratcher:

Rep. Jim Matheson (Utah) on Tuesday became the first Democrat to declare his support for placing Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress.

Send Sample Now

Oh, how I have come to love the words "Send sample now."  This has become my favorite Kindle feature. (Well, besides the ability to throw 100 books in my purse as I run out the door. That's cool, too)  If, while trolling the internet, a book even kind-a-sort-a strikes my fancy, I have the sample sent to my Kindle.  I can then review it at my leisure. If it looks good, I stick it in a file for potential future buys. If not, I delete it.

Fool me once....

Not being mathematically inclined at all, I took Earth Science in college.  This was a lab course for the liberal  arts types.  In this course, circa 1988,  I learned many interesting "facts."  For example, I learned that the planet was going to run out of fossil fuel..... by the year 2000.  I also learned about the coming population explosion. People would be dying in the streets of starvation... by the year 2000.  And the graph that demonstrated the population explosion was, naturally, a hockey stick.

Being a credulous youth of 18, I was horrified. But, life intervened and I soon forgot the coming apocalypse, only to remember it 20-something years later, when confronted with the new coming apocalypse.  Hey!  Whatever happened to those old coming apocalypses?  

"Shut up," they explained.