It’s been over fifteen years since I learned a profound lesson while in Guanajuato, Mexico with a college semester abroad program. One day during a discussion with my host family and some of their friends about U.S./Mexico relations, I was asked about the name of my country. “You are from the United States of what?” […]
Category Archives: Reference and Education
Whether God sent a judgment to New Orleans for its sinfulness is open to debate and perhaps there is no way of knowing that answer until the fat lady sings. What Ray Nagin said about New Orleans being “a chocolate city” is a bit easier to weigh and it weighs in under the lightweight category […]
Well Darlings, How was it for you? GB’s Budget? Whether you see that GB above as “Great Britain”, “Gordon Brown”, or “Grab-it Back” is, I suppose, very subjective. Gay people have come out of it with a bit of a mixed deal. If you like a couple of evenings at a pub or a club […]
Well Darlings, Here I am bashing away at the keyboard again, so you know it’s not me that’s got that 50,000,000. As I write this the police have just issued the first e-fit of one of the suspects. I haven’t seen it yet, but I can imagine the grin stretches from ear to ear. Which […]
The earth is starting to tremble in the Los Angeles animal community because Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has refused to honor his January 2005 campaign promise to fire the General Manager of Los Angeles Animal Services Guerdon Stuckey, and this broken promise has drawn attention to a potential scandal involving a loss of $1.1 million to […]
The president of Belarus is unable to go away. Though most people think he should. Most likely Alexander Lukashenko remains the president for unlimited term as a result of outrageous lie and falsifications of election. For our security forces the tension is so great, that you cannot imagine”, – the president said. Belarus is threatened […]