I don’t know about you but I am an ass guy and I have always wondered, how do you calculate that perfect apple bottom ass? Boingboing recently reported that the the Sunday Times reported that David Holmes of Manchester Metropolitan University in England has come up with a perfect ass equation. Here is [...]
The Personal Journal section of yesterdays The Wall Street Journal had an article titled Americans Fuel Yucatan Land Grab. On March 19 the New York Times had a similar article titled Making it Easier to Buy in Mexico. From The Wall Street Journal report:
Mexico, already thought to be home to as many as [...]
Damn, Nostradamus. Why couldn’t he predict the price of a barrel of oil? A barrel of crude hit a record $72 yesterday. The oil companies all claim that the high price on oil reflects the tensions between the United States and Iran. Nigeria has slowed its oil production due to tribal [...]
Georgia passed a tough new law on Monday that seems to be directly aimed at Latino immigrants. This law, HR 4437, and the racist leanings of the Minutemen seem to me similar to the American sentiment in the late 1800’s against Asians. In 1882 the United States passed the Chinese Exclusion Act [...]
Back in March 22, Slashdot had an a question and answer with Isam Bayazidi, a fellow blogger from Amman, Jordan. Isam answered mostly techie questions but he did metion the recent uproar, protests, and vandalism caused by the depictions of the prophet Mohamed in European newspapers. Isam said:
Myself, as much as I find [...]
The United States is currently engaged in wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The next front might not be Iran like many have been speculating but the European Union. The Wall Street Journal has an interesting article, U.S Sees Europe as Front Against Radical Islam. From the article:
The Bush administration has quietly opened [...]
The April 1st issue of The Economist had an article titled Sense, not Sensenbrenner. Rep. Sensenbrenner is the sponsor of HR 4437 and The Economists notes that “migrants are usually enterprising people, who enrich their new countries as well as themselves.”
And in regards to those that want to enforce the migratory laws of the [...]
The snow caps are melting and glaciers are retreating at an alarming rate. Recently the BBC News reported that when it comes to global warming we are damned if we do and we are damned if we don’t. Researchers have found that clean air trends are now contributing to our man-made global warming. [...]
At first I thought it was a joke, a belated April fools joke. My IT guy walked into my cube, he knows I am an Apple enthusiast, smiling from ear to ear and said that Apple had released Boot Camp, a beta software download that allows Windows XP to be installed in an [...]
Late last week The Wall Street Journal had an article on Coca-Cola’s new ad campaign, The Coke Side of Life. Huh? That is the best that they could come up with, The Coke Side of Life? I just hope they don’t change the formula. The Wall Street Journal has the evolution [...]