The missing plane of Malaysian Airlines flight 370 has certainly captured the imagination of the public. It's so odd for jetliners to simply disappear without a trace (and it wasn't even in the Bermuda Triangle). Questions of how inevitably lead to questions of why, and those are the hardest to discern without getting the answer straight from the horse's mouth.

There have been a lot of ideas floated around, from hijacking to terrorism to an electrical fire to mid-air identity swaps. Little snippets of facts about the pilots' personal lives get held aloft like championship trophies, and then dissected and examined for potential insight. There are two key facts, though that make this curious: The plane's flight path was changed 12 minutes before the last voice transmission, and residents in the Maldives reported a low flying jet matching the description of the "Lost" plane.
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42 comments (Latest Comment: 03/19/2014 21:51:12 by Will in Chicago)

The last time my turn to write on this day, I posted a blessing for the day. I think I will do it again.
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35 comments (Latest Comment: 03/18/2014 03:36:04 by Raine)

I am a person who believes in many things, including science and my faith.. owever, facts are things that should not be denied in pursuit of ideology -- particularly when such denial endangers public health such as the anti-vaccination movement
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3 comments (Latest Comment: 03/15/2014 18:56:17 by Will in Chicago)

A few days ago I sat down with my son and watched the premiere episode of Cosmos: A Space-Time Odyssey, the sequal/followup/reimagining of the pivotal 1980 miniseries created and hosted by the late Dr. Carl Sagan. I had loved the original miniseries as a child, mostly because it was overstuffed with scientific goodness that still spoke to the common viewer.



This new version filled me with a bit of dread, however, since 1) it was being produced by Seth MacFarlane, the man behind Family Guy and American Dad, and 2) it was being presented on FOX. I'm not sure what I expected, but I suppose that it would have involved farting galaxies or a wise-cracking animated sidekick to its host Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson

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30 comments (Latest Comment: 03/13/2014 21:24:41 by Will in Chicago)

Good Morning.

Today is our 4,538th day in Afghanistan.

We'll start this morning as we always do; with the latest casualty figures from our ongoing war, courtesy of Antiwar.com:

US Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 2,312
Other Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 1,112

We find this morning's Cost of War passing through:

$ 1, 517, 618, 850, 000 .00
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66 comments (Latest Comment: 03/11/2014 23:31:44 by BobR)