Now that CD sales are as lost as a certain Dutchman’s mines, streaming audio is in the process of killing music downloads, and travel expenses are relentless, the NFL has the gall to ask the top-shelf acts they are considering for the half-time show at this year’s Super Bowl to pay them for the honor…
Nine days ago I didn’t even know there was a Ferguson, Missouri. Not knowing that, I certainly didn’t know that it is a suburb of St. Louis. Come to think of it, there are a lot of things I don’t know, and I have plenty of company. I am pretty certain that a police officer…
The troubles in the Middle East seem to be having an exponential multiplication. This is not a new development, since this birthplace of nations and empires built upon the ruins of empires has caused itself troubles for millennia. A review of the the history of the Middle East is to study a stream of empires…Akkadian,…
Ones reputation is like a shadow. It is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows…Charles Maurice de Talleyrand I quote Talleyrand often. He was a cold-hearted, fish-blooded, disloyal, yet indispensable French Foreign Minister who single-handedly invented modern diplomacy in the service of French monarchs, emperors, and republics. None of…
Thanks for your comments. I decided a long time ago not to allow them to be shown, since I am not inviting debate and what normally turns to the internet’s form of debate, which is name calling and rude behavior. Instead, I encourage you to get your own free blog site here and do your…
Jihad has become such a fad, I decided I must have one, too, lest I seem not chic, not hip….not with what’s happening. Maybe it’s too late for me to be any of those things since I have arrived at the age where I don’t care about chic, especially nouveau chic, which is a redundancy…
There is not enough grass to mow in the world. This is doubtlessly one of the root causes of political strife and unrest; I am convinced. Just take a look at the Middle East, Northern Africa, or even the US Southern border: There isn’t much grass there, consequently, there aren’t many water moccasins (agkistrodon piscivorus),…
The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious ~~~~Marcus Aurelius The lengthy Roman empire had many emperors. Not all of them were much good, some even evil…Nero, Caligula, Domitian, Diocletian, Commodus: none of them are remembered with much admiration, each of them demanding that they be worshiped as a god, and…
Well, I do know that this is my daughter’s birthday. I became a father 32 years ago today. I know that I love her and the two precious daughters she has of her own, also known as my grandchildren, one of the best things I have found in life so far, which is something all…
Is this politics? Please indulge me. Old sins easily beset us from time to time. Though I am extremely suspect of any statistics published by any UN agency, I will use them when I find them convenient. Doesn’t everyone like statistics that are convenient? I don’t have time to waste with inconvenient statistics. They don’t…
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