Things Worth A Moment of Time

[drwex]

Mark Morford writes for SFGate.com. He's a far-left hippy commie San Francisco-living liberal and most of his columns are political. I enjoy reading those for the visceral way he writes, bitter and funny and hip. Sometimes, though, he steps away from the politics and says something interesting and philosophical, like this:
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2007/09/12/notes091207.DTL&nl=fix

APOD is always a good moment for science-geek me. Sometimes they also have really stunning pictures, like this one:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070918.html
I wish I could make more of my tax dollars go to work like this.