A recent visitor from the UK cited a BBC study that showed that the four main networks in the United States (ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox) covered only two or three non-American news stories each month. Even those had an American interest. The reader then posed the question as whether the study seemed correct. While [...]
On one hand…
It seems really stupid for me to complain about gasoline prices since we, the American public, pay less for gas than those in just about any other country. The reason? Mainly the low federal tax, about 12% in the United States versus 40%, 50%, and higher around the world. Here I am, about [...]
Squeezing my lunch between my noon-time appointment and the time I had to pick up my daughter after school, I found myself munching on a $7.98 lunch at Subway around the corner from my house. As I scarfed it down, I caught myself, chastising my appetite with the age-old expression that I was eating it [...]
At the time of authoring this, the United Nations estimates that the population of the world is 6,270,574,784 people. In less than 50 years, that number is expected to grow by fifty percent — 9 billion! At what point will we hit critical mass?
There are only so many water, wood, and food resources available on [...]
OK, I’m in the mood for a good stirring up!
Having reread the myriad responses (both idiotic and intelligent) to the Those Stupid Americans… article stemming from a vast group consisting of Americans and their mainly European and Australian counterparts, I am consistently lead back to a single point: many cultures unjustly despise individual Americans for [...]
Lately, I’ve seen comments on my Should We Attack Iraq… and Those Stupid Americans… articles along a similar vein, mainly that the US is unjust in its position against Iraq. I submit the following, much of which is taken or derived from documents and records at the National Security Archive at George Washington University:
In 1982, [...]
The news has been recently saturated with soundbites and transcriptions of President Bush’s newly inflammatory speeches regarding Iraq’s refusal to cooperate with United Nations weapons inspectors under the assumption that they have been manufacturing and stockpiling WOMD (weapons of mass destruction), and he has stated that he will seek Congress’ approval to take military action [...]
More proof that life has not changed in a thousand years. A millennium ago, charlatans and quacks posed as mediums, claiming the ability to foresee the future or speak with the dead, misleading their patrons and robbing them of their fortunes. Today is no exception.
John Edward, today’s best-known practitioner of mediumship, falls heavily into the [...]
A thousand years ago life was not that dissimilar to today.
Oh, sure, technology has made a major impact on society; computers, airplanes, cars, telephones have all made the world smaller. Information is at our fingertips. Answers to almost any of life’s questions can be revealed in seconds by searching the Internet. But the same basic [...]
I was reminded the other day of how hated we Americans are. An admittedly stupid website was reporting that Pippi Longstocking is a Satanic character, and the visiting Swedes (Sweden being the country of Pippi’s origin) let their opinions fly:
Another stupid American; the world is full of them!
You’re probably a stupid American áššhølë!
I wipe my [...]
