Yes, I have been super-nostalgic recently about my growing up in Hawaii. I have been nostalgic lately but I needed to write a post about SchoolFinder to help a friend and searched for my schools, St. Louis and Aliamanu Elementary schools. Above you’ll see an aerial photo of the neighborhood, Salt Lake, I grew […]
Before I start, check out Sean Connery’s costume (left). Zardoz is the most important movie nobody (I know) has seen. Forget that there is a lot of nakedness and topless women; or, that you get to see a super-buff, 1974-era, Sean Connery running around for more than two hours in a pair of underwear; this […]
I just finished watching a 2004 episode of John McLaughlin’s “One on One” and had by doors blown off by Amy Chua, author of World on Fire, a three-year-old book that is more relevant now than ever before. I agree with every word.
Although I am not certain any of the following actually happened, I am going to regale you with some of the boorish stories I have been sharing with friends for years. They are all St Louis School JROTC Rangers stories. In High School, I was in JROTC and a member of the elite […]
I got to spend some time hanging out with Martin Marty at Renaissance Weekend a couple years ago. All I knew about him was gleaned from lunches, dinners, and panels together. During last night’s run, my friend Marty Marty started speaking into my iPod earbuds in the form of an interview on Speaking of […]
May 19, 2002, Washington, DC – When you are 32 and charmed, its pretty difficult to leave the Mister Magoo world of happy obliviousness. Well, being on the Grand Jury with our focus on Murder, Mayhem, and Sexual Abuse is like a boot camp for getting out of my guilded carriage to see what […]
After graduating from college, I found a job via my ASMP connections from Nathan Benn was starting up a company called Picture Network International (PNI). That was one hell of a cool job.
PNI was the second “on line stock-photo shopping service” after Kodak Picture Exchange. I spent over two years there and loved it. That’s […]
Darfur is in Western Sudan on the North East Coast of Africa.
From Wikipedia:
The Darfur Conflict is an ongoing conflict in the Darfur region of western Sudan, mainly between the Janjaweed, a militia group recruited from local Arab tribes, and the non-Arab peoples of the region. The Sudanese government, while publicly denying that it supports the […]
In response to On Accusations of Secret Prison Camps, a faithful reader just sent me an IM via Skype,
“It’s important to remember that the security forces are not our friends. They are our tools. They are like pitbulls. Pitbulls are not friends. They are tools. You have them do what you […]
Mark writes, “I decided to celebrate this International Workers’ Day by driving the rover with my family into the remote mountains here in southern Tanzania to a fly-fishing and hunting lodge . . .”