Sunday, March 13, 2011
THE UP SIDE OF JAPAN'S EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI
Lots to say about this week's foreign affairs news. Lybia, Yemen, Egypt, Pakistan? Old stuff. What's hot in the news, Bahrain is teetering and Saudi Arabia is issuing warnings to protestors in the street. Then on Friday night, Japan was struck by an earthquake, the big one. The ensuing deluge...
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Saturday, March 12, 2011
HAS THE GOP ALREADY SELF-DESTRUCTED?
By bending toward the Tea Party attitudes the new GOP has brought possible political misfortune on their own heads. I remember commenting a few months back when Tea's got themselves elected to congress, this could go bad for the GOP. Let's wait and see how these new archconservatives behave. Well,...
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Thursday, March 10, 2011
THE GOOD SHIP SHOBANA
It was only a dream, a quite vivid vision, touching the center of a blue envelope in flight. Skimming the surface of the sky, I witnessed an angel from the sea. She reached out to me with her shimmer, took my hand and pressed it flat against her mind. At first, of course, I noticed the things in...
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Wednesday, March 9, 2011
FAREWELL TO MY BLOGIT! FRIENDS, CATCH YOU ON FACEBOOK & TWITTER,
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Saturday, March 5, 2011
MY BOOK REPORT: A GAME OF SPIES, 2002, JOHN ALTMAN
In the boomer generation, we stopped to ponder the strategies and counter-strategies of the war in Europe only long enough to declare it ended, thank heavens, and boring. Yet to our elders the questions of patriotism and treason, alliance and betrayal of that era, burn for answers as persistently as...
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Wednesday, March 2, 2011
THE CLEAR WINNER IN THE MIDDLE EAST UPRISINGS
I was thinking a few weeks ago how "you ain't seen nothing yet" describes this revolt cycle in the Middle East. Obama has had his tear-down-this-wall moment, referred to in his stump speeches while running for president in 2008: "...yes we can...change America and change the world..." For better or...
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Sunday, January 30, 2011
ANNOUNCING THE WINNER OF THE EGYPT REVOLUTION
I hesitate to say, Hillary Clinton is the winner of the latest world crisis: Egypt. Regardless of where one appoints oneself on the political spectrum of left versus right, it becomes obvious that Hillary is ready to rule the roost. On the left, it took Obama way too long to go to Egypt (2009) and...
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Thursday, January 13, 2011
OMG! MY BROTHER'S CHILI RECIPE IS SO MUCH BETTER THAN MINE
I made several changes to my personal best chili recipe. I started the pan with olive oil, cubed fresh onion, and one can of Mexican chili peppers (drained). Instead of whole, I used crushed and stewed tomatoes; in place of 93% diet lean I used Ground Ghuck. What a difference. Now I know my little...
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Saturday, December 25, 2010
WHAT I LEARNED OVER CHRISTMAS 2010
This morning I felt the truth, out here under the winter sky, when the children are protected by the society so often seen lacking in some respect, nourished by love; when chance providing for those who fail oppo rtunes itself, offers again to lead astray; Here where networks of blessings...
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Sunday, December 19, 2010
I'M ANGRY, DISHEARTENED AND LASHING OUT AT ENEMIES REAL AND IMAGINED
Well, it has been an interesting semester so far. Fun is more the word; I hope interesting for my students, classes, colleagues and schools. My three months in the same high school, French 1 and Spanish 2, was followed by three fun days randomly: one elementary, one middle, and one high school. Then...
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