Author Archives: lylewoodsblog

So why does it seem as though we’ve done this before? Dec. 5, 2014 — The big rocket stood upright grand and gleaming as the first rays of the early morning Florida sun back lit it with a surreal glow … Continue reading →

November 26, 2014 And now for something completely different… You probably know by now that Elon Musk of Space X has done more to advance the affordability of going into space in the last five years than NASA or ESA … Continue reading →

OK, I admit, I’m not a gun advocate. I believe that in the 21st century we should be more concerned about feeding the hungry, clothing the ragged, educating the kids in all countries and figuring out a way to make … Continue reading →

A couple of months ago I wrote a blog post about a new tax plan for the country in a light-hearted almost frivolous manner because I really didn’t think anyone would take it seriously. Boy, was I mistaken. I’ve heard … Continue reading →

Standard & Poor’s is a United States–based financial-services company owned by McGraw-Hill Companies.  They just “downgraded” the United States’ credit rating from AAA to AA+, the same as Latvia. Congratulations,  according to McGraw-Hill we’re now living in  a third world country. … Continue reading →

Reading Charlie Reese’s re-post below got me a-thinkin’. There are more kinds of taxes than one can shake a stick at (assuming one is prone to shaking sticks). More kinds of taxes than Carter has pills (assuming Carter still has … Continue reading →

After having been a journalist for almost fifty years, most recently with the Orlando Sentinel, and syndicated to newspapers across the country by King Features Syndicate, Charlie Reese retired. Although I didn’t agree with him all the time, Charlie had … Continue reading →

Here I am climbing down the ladder from the flight deck onto the mid-deck of the space shuttle Discovery after getting a complete tour of the vehicle by the same engineer who gave the Obama’s their tour a couple of … Continue reading →

Tomorrow, June 21, 2011, may well be the most exciting day of my long and, thus far, inillustrious, life. Not that it could be compared to, say, the days on which my children were born or something like that but … Continue reading →