Not the kind of “democracy” we had in mind… Translation: The sign on the wall reads: “87% of Jordanian women support the husband’s right to hit them” Abu-Mahjoob is telling his already roughed-up wife: “Um-Mahjoob, didn’t you want democracy? This is democracy!! So after seeing this survey, you should sweep the floor in silence lest [...]

Connnecting with the darkness falling falling like a star that’s calling all the answers appear misleading and I alone must choose Everything i know of me is reflections of what i tend to see but mirrors play it in reverse mirrors lie and I immersed in silent mellow rhapsody a palpitating elegy for everything i [...]

It is 11:15pm. Tonight I begin the process known as cramming. For those of you unfamiliar with this process (typically people of Asian decent who watch less than an hour of TV a day) cramming is an ancient procedure of attempting to cram oodles of “raw data” into your mind several hours before an examination [...]

I did not go outside at all today. This is a big thing when you live in a basement apartment. There are times when I have gone 2 maybe 3 days without leaving the house. When I finally do I find myself having to cover my eyes with my hand from the blinding sun. I [...]

Ten Thousand right-wing jews were called on to conquer the Haram Al-Sharif…but only an embarassing couple of dozen dared to show up. 31 were arrested by Israeli Police. Even better then the jewish-no-show were the thousands of Palestinian Muslims which gathered to defend the mosque. “Around 15,000 Palestinian worshippers have prayed the dawn prayer here,” [...]

UPDATE Based on a contact I recieved today, I’ve discovered that Mostafa Mahmoud, the first Jordanian attempting to climb Mt. Everest, has a new and improved website at www.jordanfirsteverest.com He will also be making daily updates here at www.alpineascents.com Check’em Out Posted In: Jordan

I’m not a big fan of the Tonight Show, but since they didn’t show any Letterman last week, I took in some Leno and they do have that bit aboutfunny headlines. These are the best ones. ‘Now that Iraq has become a democracy, who should join North Korea and Iran in the axis of evil?’ [...]

Well it took me awhile and plenty of putting off studying, but I managed to put categories in my sidebar. I wondered why Blogger didn’t offer it but I guess if you wan’t something done, you’ve got to do it yourself. I did a few searches and found this to be one of the best [...]