News & Politics

My old stomping grounds, the evangelical movement (EM) in the States, has pinned their hopes on the Republican Party and the current administration.  It looks like change has been in gestation for some time, and the younger leadership is steering the big vessel beyond the wedge issues of "abortion,

They have risen against thugs and brutes for basic physical human needs.  These are the images you'll see: barefoot monks, surrounded by columns of farmers and townsfolk and children, walking in a huge sea of red towards the symbols of their culture, their pagodas and temples.

The Chinese government is so scared of its own shadow that it's censored major portions of Pirates of the Caribbean 3 where Chow-Yun Fat played a pirate lord.  "The captain starring Chow is bald, his face heavily scarred, he also wears a long beard and has

Beyond all the ruminations I may have on Web 2.0, political grass-root efforts, activism and the 2008 presidential campaigns.. I have to say, Obama is getting the youth vote.  Actually - he's going to get noticed by males 16-40. Cause this video is hot. Nevermind your

October 2006.  YupNo and I wandered around the old walled town of Antalya and stumbled onto a shaded square with a couple of tables and a few women sitting around benches chatting.  Let's stop for a coffee, she said.  Ok, I said.  Wearied legs whimpered their cases and

A couple of things about the VTech media coverage: * Why the focus on the fact that the kid is a 'Korean national'? What does that have to do with it?  Was McVeigh a 'US national', was Columbine by 'American nationals'? What, I don'