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Juxtaposition
Posted by gls on 03 Dec 2007 | Tagged as: Current Affairs
The two top stories that Google news is showing:
- Venezuelans vote down Hugo Chavez’s bid to be ruler for life
- Putin Party Sweeps Russian Election That OSCE Calls `Not Fair’
Seems Hugo could have taken some lessons from Vlad.
The Libel Tourist
Posted by gls on 17 Nov 2007 | Tagged as: Current Affairs
Don’t call him Brother Romney just yet » GetReligion
Posted by gls on 16 Nov 2007 | Tagged as: Ameryka, Christianity, Current Affairs, Election 08, Religion
Interesting article on Romney’s Mormonism at “Get Religion”:
If you’ve not followed the decades-long theological debate between apologists for evangelical Protestantism and apologists for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, brace yourself. You’re probably in for an extended mass media discourse on those differences, at least until the primaries settle who will be the Republican nominee for president. Don’t call him Brother Romney just yet » GetReligion
Interview
Posted by gls on 08 Nov 2007 | Tagged as: Current Affairs
I was recently interviewed by the local paper. Another teacher had called the paper to recommend me for “Teacher of the Week” due to my Polska adventures, and voilà: a article in the paper after living in the city less than three months.
(A few mistakes here and there, but…)
Yes, My Lord
Posted by gls on 31 Oct 2007 | Tagged as: Current Affairs
Saudi King Abdullah visited Buckingham Palace, and he received a villainous welcome.
Everybody Looks East
Posted by gls on 09 Oct 2007 | Tagged as: Current Affairs, Polska
Right now there is a labor shortage in Poland for the simple reason that thousands upon thousands have gone West, primarily to Ireland and the UK, seeking work. Off the top of my head I can think of five people I know who are now in the UK: two former students and three friends.
But this leaves Poland itself short. So it’s doing what the UK did: look to the East.
Warsaw, Poland 9 October, 2007 With the failure of the Polish Government’s efforts to attract Polish workers back to Poland, Chinese and Indian workers will be brought to Poland in order to make up for the severe labor shortage that exists in the country. (Poland Looks To China And India For Help)
Medicaid Cuts
Posted by gls on 06 Oct 2007 | Tagged as: Ameryka, Current Affairs, Education, Politics
From the Sacramento Bee
The Bush administration plans to stop reimbursing states for school-based Medicaid activities, including transporting disabled students, a move that would cost California schools more than $100 million a year.
For Those With Any Doubts
Posted by gls on 29 Sep 2007 | Tagged as: Current Affairs
Ahmadinejad is indeed a nut:
Not since the prime minister of the tiny Caribbean island of Grenada presented an address claiming that UFOs posed a mortal threat to the future of mankind has the United Nations been treated to such a bizarre spectacle.
Many people believe the greatest threat to world peace concerns Iran’s nuclear programme, so there was understandably great interest at this week’s general assembly in New York when the country’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, took the platform.
But instead of seeking to reassure delegates that Iran’s nuclear intentions were purely benign, Mr Ahmadinejad took advantage of his official visit to a country deemed – in the lexicon of the Iranian Revolution – “the Great Satan” to embark on a discourse about the wonders of the 12th Imam. (Will the 12th Imam cause war with Iran? - Telegraph)
It appears that he may be wanting war as much as any warmonger Christians — those hoping to hasten Jesus’ return — here in the States.
Madeleine L’Engle
Posted by gls on 09 Sep 2007 | Tagged as: Current Affairs, Literature
Madeleine L’Engle, author of one of the most famous books in the adolescent literature canon, A Wrinkle in Time, died last week. (Madeleine L’Engle: News)
A Wrinkle in Time was one of the first science fiction books I ever read, and it’s one that has stayed with me for twenty-some years now. I read it again in college for the required course on adolescent lit, and it was just as enchanting in my early twenties as it had been twelve or so years earlier.
Tour de Steroids
Posted by gls on 25 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: Current Affairs, Society and Culture
Last year: Landis, Ulrich, Basso.
This year: Vinokourov, Moreni, and Rassmussen.
I don’t think I’ll ever be able to watch the Tour again. What’s the point? It’s no longer a contest of who has the most endurance, who trained the most, who has the most — dare I use THE sports cliche? — heart.
It’s who can best hide his doping.
Anyone who wins a stage, a title, the Tour itself will now be immediately suspect.