This from the New York Times….
As cultural coordinator for a resource center for new Quebecers, Gabriel Garcia is leading an effort to bridge the gap between the growing number of immigrants here and the mostly French-speaking society into which they have moved.
But one issue is proving to be a bridge too far for the province’s Click Here to continue reading.
All of us barbarians here in the ethereal land are down on vegan’s for a variety of reasons. But their fundamental problem is that they are not connected to reality in anyway. This from the New York Times….
When Crown Shakur died of starvation, he was 6 weeks old and weighed 3.5 pounds. His vegan Click Here to continue reading.
In the absences of human support, how long do you think it would take before an urban neighborhood to turn into wilderness rural again? I have always wondered about that question.
But apparently, I need not speculate too much. The process is actually happening in Detroit. This from Detroitblog…..
It’s always fun to go up north here Click Here to continue reading.
Although a lot of liberals would rather die then admit it, the Bush administration has been very good for the US economy. In fact, it has been a long time since this country has had it so good. Tax revenue is up. Unemployment has stayed low. People complain about the widening disparities in wealth, but Click Here to continue reading.
In America older people tend to vote more conservatively than the rest of the population. Apparently, the French are no different. According to this article in the in The Independent (h/t tompeters! and the Brussels’s Journal) Sarkozy would not have won the recent election in France if it were not for the over 60 crowd. Click Here to continue reading.
Well, the title might be overplaying it a little bit. But I have been thinking about a financial product that I think I ought to be able to buy, but can’t (at least to my knowledge).
To start off, let me explain the problem that this product needs to fix.
To put it succinctly, I think that Click Here to continue reading.
When I was writing an essay a while back, I came across this web site put out by Peter Bueschen that argued that Winslow Homer put hidden images in his paintings. Now I dismissed that idea out of hand at the time, but I just can’t get that idea out of my head.
On the Click Here to continue reading.
Life brings its share of surprises. But few things have surprised me more in life than finding out that almost everyone in America who is not white fears rural areas. I never would have thought the only areas of the country left where people do not lock their doors would inspire such fear, but apparently Click Here to continue reading.
From time to time I read blogs such as The Gates of Vienna and The Brussels Journal that are devoted to the “coming culture clash between Moslems and the West.” I go to these blogs because sometimes they alert me to interesting stories and issues that I would otherwise miss. Yet they always leave Click Here to continue reading.
It is somewhat absurd to write a review of Richard Fernandez‘ blog ‘The Belmont Club‘. All of those who might be interested in The Belmont Club have probably come across it already. It has got to be one of the most widely read political blogs out there.
But I read the Belmont Club often enough Click Here to continue reading.