I did say I would post more about the Doomsday Clock today, but I'll wait till a later date to instead write about more topical matters. First, about that horrible  Reagan National Airport air collision  between an American Airlines flight holding 64 passengers and crew from Kansas and an Army helicopter manned by three.  There were no survivors. I still remember a  similar incident on 13January1982  when I was working in the U.S. Senate.  On a cold and snowy day in the later afternoon, Air Florida 90 left Washington National Airport, but crashed soon after takeoff into the 14th Street Bridge, killing 78.  Five on the flight survived, but four motorists on the bridge died.  An unrelated accident shut down one of the Metro lines at around the same time, and it took me till midnight to get home. Why he does this is really inexcusable, but...the  New York Times  this morning  said: Trump, Without Citing Evidence, Blames D.E.I. and Demo...

Whoa, we just had a  6.3 magnitude earthquake  close to Loihi, that seamount on the southeast side of the Big Island.  The water in my aquarium almost overflowed.  I was sitting next to the window and wondered if I should move to the bathroom.  It was somewhat scary.  Reminded me of the  7.1 earthquake  I wrote about in the  Huffington Post  when I was in Tokyo just after that  Great Tohoku Earthquake in 2011 . Donald Trump had a great day yesterday , while  Joe Biden  did not.  He got irritated with the report on his confidential info problem, especially with special investigator Robert Hur, who indicated that perhaps Biden had some memory problems.  The matter of his age seems now to be his biggest stumbling block. Then, there was a  poll by NBC showing that he trailed Trump 47% to  42% .  Here is where he is hurting the most:  16 points behind Trump on being "competent and effective." ...

On this nostalgic Tuesday, I look back at my posting of 2012:   Kung Hee Fat Choy , which means Happy New Year.  I said: This is the year of the dragon, which is the most favorable, luckiest and revered zodiac sign.  Dragons are confident, generous, colorful, gifted and operate on a grand scale.  Hmm...no wonder I am a dragon.  Both  weddings and births will spike this year in the Orient .  We dragons, though, can be conceited, tactless, and solitary.   The more I look at the above, the more it makes sense, for I can be conceited, tactless and solitary.  I also said: There are, actually,  ten different dragons .  Twelve years ago it was metal and in 2024 it will be wood.  This year?  The  water dragon , something that won't happen again for 120 years.  The founders of  Blue Revolution Hawaii  have accepted the Blue Marine Dragon as our mascot . I showed a photo of the fireworks at the Marina B...