Monthly Archives: September 2010

We just found out today we’ve sunk well over thousand dollars into a car that won’t ever run again. My wife got a tune-up and had the brakes and window motor fixed last month so we could close it and … Continue reading →

Now that it is reported even Fidel acknowledges the Soviet model hasn’t worked for Cuba, I’d like to ask a purely theoretical question. We all know that imperialism is always and forever a Bad Thing, but… Given that 1) we … Continue reading →

I suppose by now it’s evident over the years I’ve collected a fund of cool stories. Stories of things that happened to me, or I’ve witnessed personally, or I have at first-hand from sources I trust. And that was before … Continue reading →

Amid all the fol-de-rol about the Ground Zero Mosque controversy I recall an incident in Oklahoma, around 30 years ago that presaged all this. Dr. Nazih Zuhdi born 1925 in Beirut, Lebanon, to a Syrian father and Turkish mother, came … Continue reading →

Back again after two weeks on the road. It was the most excruciatingly uncomfortable two weeks of my life. In Eastern Europe I’ve been kicked with honest-to-god jackboots and beaten with honest-to-god rubber truncheons. (They’re not just rubber, they have … Continue reading →