Getting back to the tens of millions of dollars the UN has wasted in Sudan that I mentioned yesterday, but had neither the time nor the stomach for, I find it more than a tad disingenuous that the same day this story came out in the Washington Post, the “UN News Centre” had only this [...]
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It’s no surprise that the adoption world is easily offended when babies are used as props, since a good part of the debate that fumes mightily has everything to do with children posed as possessions to be wrangled over. But it could be argued that kids are not only “property” in the yours, mine and [...]
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Posted in Adoption, Adoption Advocacy, Adoption News, Celebrities, Celebs, Fun, International Adoption, Older Parent Adoption, tagged Steven Wright, Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison, George Washington Carver, Aristotle on January 3, 2008 | 19 Comments »
“My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.”
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The day the music died may have been in 1959, but twenty-seven years ago today the world lost not only one of the most brilliant and creative musical minds in modern history, but a bit of its soul and a lot of its conscience.
December 8, 1980 was the day Mark Chapman shot and killed John [...]
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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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Posted in American thoughts, Celebrities, WTF?, Younger men, tagged , 9/11, Ahmadinejad, facial hair, Freddy Mercury, Gay, Holocaust, Huffington Post, Iran on September 25, 2007 | 4 Comments »
I like the Huff Post and go there a lot to check out the latest, almost never failing to find something that educates or amuses.
Because of where I live, however, I don’t get to take full advantage of the cool features today’s news providers offer like on-demand video. No, I just get the ‘quick [...]
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