Iraq Insanity

Yeah, everything’s under control. Sure.

I’m wondering what’s in the water being drunk by people who still think this isn’t a madhouse mess.

Hey, Look!

Yeah, this has to be a joke. I hope. Or they’re doomed.

Strange Afghani Expedition

There’s a weird but interesting expedition being documented over at a page calledTravel Afghanistan.
A small proportion of Afghan children have a distinctively European appearance, sometimes blonde or red-haired, quite different from the dark Asian looks of most Afghans. Western explorers have always wondered whether they might be descended from the Greek soldiers in Alexander’s army [...]

Weird Exciting News

This is almost too unbelievable to be true.
I was at the hospital to get a new splint because the one I’d had on for two weeks had begun to smell a little. After a conversation or two in the waiting hallway with some ajummas and halmeonis and ajeoshis (listed in order of interest), I [...]

Too Many Boys

I realize reading this article, “A Dangerous Surplus of Sons?”, that while I thought I was being negative about the sex-imbalance in Asia—the fact that there are going to be far too many more men than women in places like China and India—I was being a little too optimistic, in fact.
One question occurs to [...]

Dyson On Green

A review of Brian Green’s latest physics popularization by Freeman J. Dyson. I have a book in my bookshelf waiting for me to read, by this Green guy. Hm. I wish I had more books by Dyson, actually. He’s fascinating. Especially The Sun, The Genome, and the Internet, which I think is the title of [...]

The Flagellant

There are a lot of wonderful things to say about Christianity and Christians. I’ve said some of them before. So now I’m going to sternly warn a small segment of the population that is not-so-wonderful. For its own good.
Among the many sane and normal and wonderful Christians of the world, there is a specific group [...]

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