Did your Mom ever make you kids coffee jello for dessert? Mine did. It's good.
Bird Man: A portfolio of John Isaac's close encounters of the avian kind
Travel advice from my Pupette: When you go to third world countries, bring some Cipro with you
Every hear of "childism"?
That nutty lady never had a child
Men and Women Have Major Personality Differences: New Report Suggests Previous Measurements Have Underestimated Variation Between the Sexes
Well, I'll be darned
University Guildsmen and Anticapitalism
Here's the scare info on fracking.
Ever read the package insert on your medicines? It's sort of like that.
Haiti: Where did the money go?
A great place for NGOs
“Italy will astound the world,” he replied, “with its ingratitude.” Mead:
...the German vision of a Europe transformed into virtuous northern savers who play honestly and conscientiously by the accepted rules of the game looks hopelessly unrealistic, and never so more than now as the Italians get into the game.
Herbert London: The Failure of the Century's Grand Experiments:
If there is one obvious condition associated with the last century, it is the lack of government humility. Among the century’s leadership there was the self confident belief that “good ideas” will trump tradition, customs, history, even instinct. There were scarcely limits to political ingenuity. Here was the triumph of positivism, the assumption that rationality can subdue emotion. The engineers were in history’s driver’s seat and the lights appeared to be synchronized in green. Somewhere along the way things went wrong and the lights turned crimson...
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