Month: May 2006

My attention has been turning more toward what is happening in the Pacific Basin and the countries surrounding it.  I’ll be starting a site soon that is directed to the Pacific.  This is practice chops.This is...

During the Cold War it was a dissident movement of human rights activists, writers and political agitators such as Andrei Sakharov, Vaclav Havel, Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn and Lech Walesa who were largely responsible for...

It’s Kentucky Derby Day at the Froggy Bottom Café Post time is 5:00 p.m. CDT so place your bets now. Your host today is Maryb. Racing forms are next to the door where the newspapers usually are Please recommend (and...

Promoted by Steven D. Video in Streaming Flash format… Video in Windows Media format… The number of Iraqi’s forced from their homes due to organized campaigns of ethic cleansing has increased from 30,000 to...

cross-posted at the paper tiger Some interesting environmental news related to China. First, activist Yu Xiaogang, founder of the environmental group, Green Watershed, is one of this year’s recipients of the prestigious...