An Activist for Every Occasion

Yesterday was Martin Luther King Day.  Working for an international business, we tend to have to work on most gov’t holidays.  Not that I don’t mind.  I rather enjoy my job and long periods away from it at home can make me crazy.
Two things just happened to ruffle my feathers yesterday and it’s the ruffling [...]

Read Full Post »

Perspective

It’s been a while. The world…my world has been a busy place. I am not one to enjoy the holidays much…I am more of one to endure the holidays. There were good moments interlaced between the insanity of taking time off from work. My wife was busy with various projects throughout [...]

Read Full Post »

Bless the Amish

A few weeks ago, the US went through a couple really vile tragedies.  It makes me ache to think about what the families of the victims must be going through.   One was the maniac in Colorado who attacked a school, assaulted his victims, shot one in the head, and then killed himself.  The victim [...]

Read Full Post »

Morals and the Cause

For the past few weeks, I have been taking the bus to work.  The only advantage to this:   I get to read an awful lot.  There have been several biographies in Russian which have been on my “intending to read” list, but that never happened until now.
So far, on the bus, I have finished reading [...]

Read Full Post »

And you thought the DMV was bad

A recent post by a friend of mine about the DMV brought back “fond” memories of the tailings of Soviet bureaucracy. This was also driven home by a book I recently finished, titled simply enough, “The Russians” by Hedrick Smith.
Mr. Smith describes how the russians have this mentality to stick it to anyone they [...]

Read Full Post »

Tom and Jerry, you let me down.

The Manchester Metropoliton Univeristy recently concluded a study indicating that mice, in all reality, don’t like cheese. I’m crushed…I can’t believe those little buggers duped me all these years. And what is worse, one of my favorite cartoons lied to me. Jerry is not a real mouse?
I knew he was something special, [...]

Read Full Post »

180 degrees in 15 years

In a recent article on the “traditional August internet-pedsovet” (pedigological-counsel), pedigogs decided that the school of the new generation should not only provide a scholastic education to children, but also “intellectual, aesthetic, and moral education”. It always makes me shudder when pedigogs decide they want to give my children a “moral education”. In Russia, they [...]

Read Full Post »

This is how rumors get started

The adventure begins.
I frequent a russian news-site.  I like to keep up with how things are going over there, get a different perspective than the one spun by homegrown media,  and often enough, they post recent news before CNN.com does.  But today, it really cracked me up.  Those guys REALLY need to do more research [...]

Read Full Post »

A new adventure.

I have been reading blogs since waaaay after they became popular.  Finally, I decided to create my own.  Why, you might ask?  I think its still an extension of my desire to do something creative and fulfilling other than my job.  So, here I go on another adventure.

Read Full Post »