NAPP voters were given an impressive array of choices about what would matter most to them in choosing between Obama and McCain come November. The result: A three-way tie between three subjects — “Change,” “Economic Recession,” and “War in Iraq… Continue Reading
The Wife and I had dinner tonight at a new restaurant in town, called “Pars: Fine Persian Cuisine.” Leaving aside the annoying subtitle (restaurants should not have subtitles), I’d never had a lot of experience with Persian food and was… Continue Reading
For far, far too long, the Administration has allowed the dollar to become weak. Astonishingly weak, especially as compared against the power of the currencies of other industrialized nations (the Euro, the Yen) and it seems to continue falling in… Continue Reading
The Parliament of Nepal issued the King an eviction notice today: you’re not the king anymore, so get out of the Royal Palace in 15 days. His Majesty’s failure to timely vacate the premises, I presume, will result in further… Continue Reading
The regime in Burma is being astonishingly slow to let in international aid. There are grisly photographs of tens of corpses floating in overflowing riverbanks. It would be inhuman to not want to see aid workers get in there, distribute… Continue Reading
The United States really detained a nice Italian lawyer – a man not of Arabic descent, not visibly Muslim, and in fact quite innocuous and was guilty only of trying to visit his girlfriend. There is no indication that he… Continue Reading
Remember that strange war between Israel and Hezbollah last year? The one that was pretty clearly a proxy conflict between the U.S. and Iran? Well, Israel’s goal was to stamp Hezbollah out of existence. It has obviously failed. Like the… Continue Reading
When you get hit with a cyclone, and a hundred thousand people die and another 1.5 million face starvation, you want a government that isn’t too proud or too ashamed of itself to let in outsiders. The Burmese people, however,… Continue Reading
A little bit less than 1,900 people died as a result of Hurricane Katrina, all but two of them in the New Orleans and southern Mississippi region. Yet the landfall of a cyclone in Yangon, Myanmar, which has killed over… Continue Reading
No bell-bottom sightings at this time, but I’m starting to see more similarities than differences. Consider: The dollar is weak. Monopoly-money weak. We’re in a lingering, indecisive, expensive, and still-dangerous tail end of a protracted foreign war, in which the… Continue Reading