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Keep Watching the Skies

This coming Wednesday, November the 1st 2017, from 8:00-10:00 pm Eastern Daylight Time, I’m going to be a guest on Podcast UFO. The subject is going to be Betty and Barney Hill. Those who want to prepare might read this paper: Amabile, JD, MD, Phyllis E. and Jobe, MD, Thomas H. (1987) “Hypnosis in theContinue reading “Keep Watching the Skies”

Doubling Down

All too often these days we read or hear in the news, “[Name of politician] doubled down on his earlier remarks…” So what does it mean to “double down”? The term comes from the world of gambling, specifically from the game of Blackjack (AKA “Twenty-one”). The object of the game is to draw cards soContinue reading “Doubling Down”

Erase Una Vez en el Oeste

Today is the anniversary of a couple of iconic events from the Wild West: One of the first, if not the first, actual middle-of-the-street quick-draw gunfighter duels, and the first train robbery by the Younger-James gang (not the first train robbery of the Old West, though — the Reno brothers beat Cole and Frank toContinue reading “Erase Una Vez en el Oeste”