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.
The dichotomy of leadership is how you lead successfully without embracing autocracy in the process. It seems to be almost impossible for human beings to …
Jersey is the largest of the Channel Islands, an archipelago of six inhabited islands (and many more uninhabited ones) scattered over the English Channel, just …
Demographics will always reshape the medium-term future because the change in economically productive populations is already determined. For example, most people who will be alive …
Tribalism and the media is a variation on a theme I have returned to several times over the course of my blog-writing career. Tribalism seems …
Roman graffiti is among the most interesting, lewd and graphic of any graffiti produced by any civilization. It makes the graffiti scratched on the walls …
“Travel scruffy” seems to be the current mantra of the airline passengers’ community, and it appears to be getting more profound. The state of dress, …
Backstabbers, ancient and modern. I thought this short commentary on Putin, and his future, was fun, accurate, and applicable far beyond Russia’s current leader. …
I have written several blogs over the past few years about the U.S. need for a Constitutional Convention, but I hadn’t thought of it in …
What causes our gray hair? And is there anything we can do to prevent or reverse the process? These are questions all of us have considered …
Sweden graphite and China are an unlikely combination for the topic of a blog, but the story is an example of how the Chinese Communist …
