Posted in Adoption, Children, International Adoption, The USA from the outside in, World politics, orphans, tagged Africa, AIDS, GW Bush, Mugabe, orphans, PEPFAR, Zimbabwe on February 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I’ve just read the most confounding bit of news I’ve seen in a while, and in a source that usually delivers it straight up, making it even more confusing.
It’s this article in the Washington Post that sent me scurrying all over the Internet in search of corroboration and reason.
The story is about George W. [...]
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According to this article in the Washington Post, not a lot.
It would be nice to claim that comic strips are the last bastion of racism in American media, but that really would be funny. It’s simply one more example of carte blanche being lily white in the realm that exerts influence over the thinking of [...]
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Back in the days when I was still working for Adoption dot com, when a new and enthusiastic editor carved out yet another blog for me after noting my news-houndyishness and created the “News” blog, word came down from On High that I should take on the task of examining Presidential candidates and their positions [...]
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“You don’t know you’ve crossed the line until you get accused of crossing the line.”
That right there is a line crossed, as far as I’m concerned.
It came from the mouth of a guy named Jeffrey T. Schwartz in defense of one Cesar Rodriquez.
Whether Cesar Rodriguez, who is accused of beatings and abusive behavior that killed [...]
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Posted in Adoption, Adoption Advocacy, Adoption News, International Adoption, The USA from the outside in, The United Nations, tagged AIDS, Kenya, orphans, United Nations, USAID, Zimbabwe on January 20, 2008 | 9 Comments »
How many mornings start off with a sense of despair as I open my computer to learn what has happened around the planet as I slept the night away peacefully in the bosom of my beautiful little family? Far too many.
The world is for more people than not a terrible place of unimaginable pain and [...]
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The Guttmacher Institute released its latest report on abortion numbers in the US last week, and because they are down to the lowest rate since 1974, the report is getting press.
The latest figures are from 2005, and the study found a 25 percent drop from an all-time high of 1.6 million in 1990, although still [...]
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I’ve been pounding away on the adoption advocacy front for a very long time, but still raw from the recent flaying I’ve decided to commence a brand new campaign for the betterment of humanity for the time being … today, anyway.
Having left the US in 1993, I’ve missed a lot, and I am nowhere [...]
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Posted in American thoughts, Celebrities, Celebs, Expat Living, NaBloPoMo, The USA from the outside in, tagged OJ Simpson, Nicole Brown Simpson, 2000 presidential election, Reality TV, Iraq war on November 27, 2007 | 2 Comments »
It’s a big dividing point between American expats as far as maintaining a capacity to take in and digest present day events in the country, the 12th of June 1994.
You are forgiven if the date doesn’t set bells clanging, as events of the day easily float to the bottom of the cesspool that started filling [...]
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I have a political question for today:
Are folks in America as hot over the YouTube “debates” as they look to be from out here where CNN comes only in brief, but enthusiastic spurts?
I heard the hype leading up to the Democrats doing their version of “Who Do You Trust”, and now that it’s Republicans about [...]
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I am thankful. I am SO thankful. I am really, really thankful.
I am thankful for my life, the fact that I have had one and that I still have one. The emergency heart surgery in Singapore in ‘99 was a close shave that puts me in mind every day of what a gift each [...]
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