Month: March 2015

Does any body else watch football/futbol/soccer? Major League Soccer is off to a great start this year. I’ve already watched three matches, and the level of play is definitely improved. It was pretty special to see Kaka...

BREAKING NEWS: A suspect in Boris Nemtsov killing blew himself up with a grenade in Grozny as police tried to detain him -Interfax. From the anti-Putin propaganda website in Washington DC – The Interpreter … 5 Men...

You can say this about American Nazis, they are persistent. Nearly ten years ago, a group calling itself the National Socialist Movement (NSM) planned a march through a predominately African-American community in a northern...

What’s your favorite word that you would never use in ordinary conversation?

I finally got a chance to read the transcript of President Obama’s speech in Selma. It struck me, at least on paper, as a pretty epic stemwinder. I assume he wrote it with minimal help for his speechwriting staff, although...