News from the Northwoods

This blog posts about aviation, automobiles, electronics, programming, politics and such other subjects as catch my interest. The blog is based in northern New Hampshire, USA

Thursday, November 15, 2012

1500 hours = $150,000

FAA is going to demand pilots have 1500 flying hours in order to fly airliners, even as a co pilot. That's a lot of time. That's 3...

Email is a public record, open to anyone

If the CIA director cannot keep his email secure from FBI snoopers, no one else can either. Your life will have fewer nasty surprises if y...

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

The War for Women, Part 2

In theWall St Journal Op page, we have Andy Kohut, old liner pollster, commenting upon the Republican loss last week. He gives some figure...

Tax and Spend, or Spend and Tax

Fiscal Cliff. Let's cut spending first. Go for a big cut, a real cut, not fake cuts like last time. After getting some spending cuts ...

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

What goes around, comes around

In 1937 German Field Marshall von Blomberg, Chief of Staff of the Wehrmacht, entered into a second marriage with his secretary, Erna Gruhn....

Stone Age Genesis

Both the Economist and the Wall St Journal carried the story of really old stone tools. Archaeologists excavating at Pinnacle Point in Sout...

Monday, November 12, 2012

War for Women

There are a lot of reasons for last week's Republican defeat. A big one, not the only one, but a big one, is loss of the women's vo...

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