This year has been very dry so far for real Summer of Fear stories, no big shark scares, killer bees, bear attacks of note or any of the usual run of the mill fear stories. On the other hand we are seeing more Summer of Embarrassment stories like this one. I am sure this tiger [...]
I struggle with abstract math, I do much better with it when I can see the result applied to the real world. I have never had this problem with studying history, but some do and recently there was a great story in the NY Times about someone applying history to the real world. The story [...]
The Guardian has a classic article in a genre I call Stay At Home And Let Me Tell You About It. This type of article comes around because the world has gotten flatter and people who in the past could never go anywhere very far are now traveling the world. It used to be if [...]
Ignorant rednecks spew hate speech at Mexico, only stupid bigoted Americans can do that sort of thing, right Mr. Clarkson? Ahem, I said isn’t that right Mr. Clarkson? Thank goodness we have the BBC in America now to protect us from this sort of bile.