I read his blog all the time, I got his name off the Skeptics Guide to the Universe about 5 months ago.
Neutron stars have always been my favorite astnomical object. Almost a blackhole but not quite.
What does defeat mean to you?
Nothing it will never come. Death before defeat. I don’t bend or break. I end, if I meet a foe capable of it. Victory is in forcing the opponent to back down. I do not. There is no defeat.
There is only one way of avoiding the war – that is the overthrow of this society. However, as we are too weak for this task, the war is inevitable. -L. Trotsky, 1939