Of course they are. And if you are privileged enough to live in that rarefied atmosphere you would not see where and how most of them live. No, you...
I had a Persian friend in California who owned a store. He had employees from Iran who spoke Arabic. When he spoke to them his tone was the same that...
Hold on, I am getting an image of an old small man, hunched over a keyboard in one of those concrete Soviet apartment blocks in Prague. What you...
Apologies if you are autistic or very young but you are wrong. Arbor Day is a form of nationalism. So is Habitat For Humanity. Volunteer fire...
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/Blog/2013/12/19/Neanderthal-genome-reveals-inbreeding-and-interbreeding/3431387492164/ One type of early human...
Taken to extremes it is. And extreme nationalism is the only interpretation that can be given to the "notable event" of Abe visiting the shrine.
You sound like one of Sciforums wise graybeards, able to tell "weird and wonderful" from true. You also say that nationalism is the biggest threat...
If you think there is a difference between "disappointed" and "pissed off" in political terms, good for you. Stay innocent as long as you can....
Every so often a Japanese Prime Minister visits a shrine in Japan and Asian countries, and the US, get pissed off. It happened today. The shrine they...
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=dark-money-funds-climate-change-denial-effort
Part of a scene from a great movie called Bulworth. Bulworth: Or a white boy bustin' ass, Till they put him in his grave. He ain't gotta be...
So that's what it is. And it's small and quiet enough in the store to get the full effect. If you ever get to Chicago try to go to Millennium Park....
There is an 84 year old out here, a Johnnnie Walker fan, who says he is still alive because he flushes out his liver with a six-pack on Sunday. It...
The Tea Party. A blip in American political history. A Koch and Rove funded manipulation of red faced, angry whites who saw a Black Man in a White...
Refer any issues you may have about the following language to a distillery in Tennessee. That sonofabitch, he had a way of talking his clients...
After much toil here is the only thing I could find about the foundation of the Burj. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burj_Khalifa There may be...
Checking into that. Problem with it is that it will have to be cleaned and re-sealed every 4 or 5 years.
Began with father's Arvanitika and mother's Slav with Greek in-between and at the end. And now mighty English, which insists knight and night be...
I'm really glad you said that. I was thinking of using it on one wall of a shower.
Couldn't find any info on what the Burj is built on. Being in the Middle East, sandstone would be a first guess. Do you happen to know?
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