I have to admit that I really hesitated before writing this post but I felt like venting or ranting about this topic and I guess I’ll take my chances with what comments may follow. Keep in mind that I am not a scholar but you don’t need a certificate to learn and educate yourself in […]

A lot of “reporters” (comedians) are coming and going now on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Demetri Martin is a comic who has a very unique standup act that I’ve seen for a few years now on the late show circut. Apparently he’s part of the show now doing “trendspotting”. In this piece Demetri […]

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By the time you finish reading all of this a baby in Egypt will have been born. That’s right. According to the census Egypt’s population now stands at 73.6 million with a baby born every 23.4 seconds. Since 2000 the population has been increasing at the rate of 1.3 million a year.
Does this indicate poor […]

Someone should collect the transcripts of all these meetings and make a book out of them, of course they’ll be jailed but they would be doing a great service to the world and to history. I don’t know of anything that has been as valuable to history (or revealing) since the McMahon-Hussein documents (correspondence). But […]

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