Tuesday, November 19, 2019

African crawling cooties . . . nasty little things!

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Westerners who visit Africa, particularly the off-the-beaten-track parts of Africa, often have little or no idea of the dangers involved.  ...
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"So what can I, personally, do about this mess?"

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That's a question I'm being asked more and more, as the dismally partisan, sectarian and one-sided impeachment proceedings play out...
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Monday, November 18, 2019

The homeless crisis and what it portends

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In a recent interview , Doug Casey offers his perspective on the explosion of homelessness in parts of this country, and what it means.  He...
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Hong Kong: totalitarianism triumphs, democracy dies

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What we've seen in Hong Kong over the past couple of days has been coming for some months.  It's been inevitable, and now it's ...
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Sunday, November 17, 2019

Sunday morning music

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Now and again, a musical performance comes along that makes me laugh out loud.  This morning's offering did just that.  What happens wh...
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Saturday, November 16, 2019

Saturday snippet: the perils of trail driving Texas longhorns

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As part of writing the Western novels in my " Ames Archives " series, I spend a fair amount of time and money looking up original...
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Friday, November 15, 2019

Ice on your windscreen? Three home-made solutions

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Like many of us, Miss D. and I were caught in the big Arctic freeze that blew through last week.  It froze up our car windows, so that bef...
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America's food chain: interesting - and vulnerable?

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The University of Illinois has just produced the first high-resolution map of the food supply chain in the United States.  It's eye-ope...
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Thursday, November 14, 2019

Reduce the housing shortage by . . . making home ownership more costly???

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One wonders whether the San Diego City Council has ever heard the expression, "a contradiction in terms".  Its housing policy ap...
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Fraud and counterfeiting in medical supplies

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I've been looking into emergency medical products to control bleeding, following my recent spell in hospital and subsequent developmen...
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Wednesday, November 13, 2019

Fanatics, politics, and one-track minds

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As I've said many times, I'm neither Republican nor Democrat, neither left-wing nor right-wing.  I have my own views on life, the u...
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Terrorist chickens coming home to roost?

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A few weeks ago, I noted that ISIS terrorists imprisoned in the Kurdish areas of Syria were caught between a rock and a hard place. Syr...
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Tuesday, November 12, 2019

An antidote for a freezing night

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It's another night of the current Arctic blast, with temperatures setting a new low record for this part of the world at this time of y...
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The Tetris Challenge - military edition

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The so-called "Tetris Challenge" appears to be sweeping through the Twitterverse.  In it, military, first-responder and other uni...
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Recovery is not as easy as I'd hoped

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Following my adventures in hospital last week , I've been trying to get back on an even keel.  Progress has been in fits and starts, wi...
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Monday, November 11, 2019

I'd like to try cooking them

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I was amused to read that clay tablets, many thousands of years old, containing ancient Babylonian recipes have been decoded, and research...
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That's a trick they didn't teach us at seminary . . .

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Being a retired chaplain, I couldn't help but laugh out loud at yesterday's Pearls Before Swine comic strip.  (Click the image to s...
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Sunday, November 10, 2019

Sunday morning music

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While I was in hospital last week , a reader sent me the link to a new music video by Russian trio (and occasional quartet) Silenzium.  The...
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