The Austin Sereal Bomber is Dead

That Austin bomber was killed Wednesday night.  It was a 24 year old white guy so he fits the typical profile.  He was in his car and the SWAT team was tightening the dragnet around him and he decided to bomb himself.  But he could remain a threat beyond the grave because maybe he left packages lying around, so the citizenry should be careful. 

The two big stories going around [yesterday] are those now five bomb explosions in Austin, Texas.  The latest one was in San Antonio but it was in a FED-EX package that came from Austin and was slated to return to Austin..  The fourth bomb was set off by a trip-wire on Sunday.  There were three others earlier in the month.  For a while they thought the bombings were racially motivated but then concluded that they were random.  The other story for today is this Maryland High School shooting wounding a fourteen year old boy and almost killing a seventeen year old girl who is in critical condition now.  The shooter was killed by a security guard this school was lucky to have.  The governor and others made a speech on KFI radio earlier today.  No doubt it will be on tonight’s news.

Stephen Hawking's final research paper could help astronomers find evidence that our universe is just one among many in a larger "multiverse," according to media reports.  The famed cosmologist, who died last week at the age of 76, is lead author of a study called "A Smooth Exit from Eternal Inflation?" which was originally submitted to an unnamed journal last July. On March 4 — just 10 days before Hawking's death — his co-author, Thomas Hertog, a professor of theoretical physics at KU Leuven University in Belgium, submitted a revised version of the manuscript for further review, according to British newspaper The Sunday Times.  The inflation referenced in the paper's title is the incredible expansion of space-time theorized to have occurred in the first few moments after the Big Bang, which created the universe. Many physicists believe that this dramatic ballooning wasn't limited to our neck of the cosmic woods but rather happened repeatedly, spawning multiple universes — perhaps an infinite number of them.   Of course this has been my theory all along, and I wrote on it just last week. 

Yesterday was the first day of spring but the east coast is having their fourth major snow storm in the last three weeks.  It's 37 and windy in Chicago.  How's that for baseball weather.  President Trump congratulated Vladimir Putin's election victory last Sunday even though none of his real opponents were allowed to even run.  There were supposedly notes telling Trump not to make the call.

I looked at that Pennsylvania map of congressional districts.  It seems that is the revised map the democrats wanted and not the gerrymandered situation that formerly existed.  The Supreme Court refused to overturn the Pennsylvania State Courts that ruled that democrats were entitled to a fair drawing of the districts.  So in November they will be using the democratic map.  In other news there is only one abortion clinic in Mississippi.  Bill Handel is against further restrictions of abortion but Mississippi lawmakers want a fifteen week limit on abortions.  This number seems perfectly reasonable, but Bill Handel is throwing a fit over it.  Of course on Saturday March 24^th they are having the “March for our Lives” of the student victims of gun shootings and people all over the country and perhaps the world will be marching.  In Washington DC they are postponing the cherry blossom festival till Sunday in response to the huge crowds that are expect.  I certainly hope the marches bring results.  

I had Sixty Minutes on.  It was those four teenagers from Parkland High School.  Emma Lopez had her short hair.  They are all accomplished speakers and have a future.  They are mature and have foresight beyond their years.  Then it was that Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia.  I was favorably impressed by him even if it was an act.  He knew all of the right things to say to put Americans and the rest of the Western World at ease.  At twenty to eight I went down for medication and got cough medicine.   The third segment was women who have benefited from the reformed government of Saudi Arabia.  There was a crime program on CBS but I don’t remember what it was.  They had NCIS LA on at nine.