I created the “Connecting the Dots” blog site to investigate and interpret a global range of topics from an international, and personally quirky, perspective.
My topics in “Connecting the Dots” include politics, the environment, fun issues, social issues and anything else that catches my attention. I hope you enjoy them, and will join me through your comments.
I inaugurated the “GOLDEN FLEECE AWARD” some time ago, which rewards the most stupid, inept, criminal and just plain dumb activities of public officials and others, everywhere. I have now added another award, the “GOLDEN EAGLE AWARD”, which celebrates remarkably positive activities of public officials and others. I would appreciate your help in identifying great examples of both.
Flowers and Bees in Denmark. A very viral post on Facebook, recently claimed that, in Denmark, “a law obliges owners of large agricultural lands to …
The ubiquitous tartan is everywhere. More resonances cling to tartan than perhaps any other fabric. It’s a stirring visual expression of both history and geography, …
A dangerous U.S. conundrum has become more obvious in the last few years. It has always existed, and is, in fact, incorporated in the U.S. …
The perceived positions of the Senate and the Supreme Court in U.S. constitutional life seems to me to have suffered a reversal in roles. …
Old people are sneaky. In a scene straight out of a spy movie, an elderly couple reportedly escaped from an assisted living facility using some …
The Wright Stuff on Mars is a nice play on words, combining the historical event of the Wright Brothers first flight near Kittyhawk, North Carolina …
A Chair built for Torpedo Attack is a U.S. Navy legend. Fire kills warships. In the early days of World War II, the USS Vincennes was …
It’s time for founding a school for legislators, and for me to return to a theme that has been annoying me for years. I first …
The dawn of wireless electricity was actually over a hundred years ago, as far as the science was concerned. However, technology usually takes time to …
Daylights savings time part 3 is the final blog of the three on this topic. The final one for the time being, I promise. …
