I seem unable to stay away from coral reefs these days.  Never mind that the Capitan Reef hasn’t been an actual reef for 125,000,000 years, and that the Delaware Sea dried up at the end of the Permian, Capitan still has that reef magic. And, like coral reefs throughout the world, it has caves and […]

Via Bruce Sterling, an annotated index of Russian disinformation.  Much of which seems aimed at demonstrating that the Baltic Republics never existed, spend their days persecuting Russian nationals, and only exist now because of a perfidious Western campaign aimed at President Putin personally. War by spring?

So our new president-elect is the simultaneous choice of the KGB, FBI, and KKK.   That’s gotta be a first. (Now I know that Trump supporters are deeply resentful of charges of racism.  “I’m not a racist, and neither is Trump,” I hear.  “He just used the racists, and fooled them into voting for him. (If […]

During my week in Palau I did 25 dives, but after we shifted to Chuuk I did eight dives over the course of five days, all of them on Japanese wrecks from the Second World War.  I was more than ready for the more leisurely pace.  Doing five dives per day is work.   Instead of […]