PUB LANDLORD
I thought this story of a pub landlord in the U.K deserved wider attention since it’s not only a very positive community activity in an …
MONCHILAS
In the Colombian city of Riohacha, there are numerous street sellers of traditional bags called mochilas. For every handwoven bag she sells on the palm-lined …
NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
I had to write a blog this week about the continued integrity of the Nobel Prize Committee in selecting Maria Corina Machado, the Venezuelan democratic …
Robert Reich
I have quoted Robert Reich several times in the past few months, and I am doing so again this week because I couldn’t write a …
PRESIDENT
I have decided that I will run for President of the United States. My reasons include, (1) I am certainly no less dumb, stupid, incompetent, …
PUERTO RICO VERSUS DONALD TRUMP
Puerto Rico versus Donald Trump sounds like a David and Goliath slogan, but it may well be a necessary call-to-arms if Trump’s stacking of the …
ROBERT REICH
I am doing something a little different in this blog featuring Robert Reich. He has recently published two articles that, I think, epitomize the current …
STANDING DESK
The idea that you should use a “standing desk” has been on the periphery of office designs for some time, but it hasn’t really caught …
WOMENS POCKETS
I wrote a blog several years ago about the almost total lack of pockets in female clothing entitled Womens Pockets. That blog was specifically about …
VICARS CLOSE
Vicars Close is a dead-end street in Wells, Somerset. It is, reportedly, Europe’s oldest residential street, with the original buildings still intact. John Julius Norwich called it “that rarest of survivals, a planned …