Author: caribeyandino

Hi, I have not been actively posting on the internets for a while, but I have been lurking. Last night, on Booman’s “Blogroll” diary on kos, I saw a comment of his stating that he has money troubles and may not...

So, recently scribe gifted us with a wonderful diary on swearing, in a funny but soulful Dave Sedaris sort of style.  Soj then added some nerdy comments on that diary that got me, a fellow nerd, thinking about the nerdy...

This is going to be a series on how the United States, and the first world in general, is viewed by the third world in general and Colombia in particular (the country I’m from, it’s spelt with an O). The idea is for...

The more I live, the more I am convinced that morality and pragmatism are not opposed but, rather, the same thing. Doing the right thing is the same as doing the expedient thing. The opposite is also true: Iraq is a military,...

DISCLAIMER 1: There are two years to go and these are slow news days; this is basically for fun DISCLAIMER 2: I’m from Colombia, so this is an outsider’s perspective. I follow US politics closely because electoral...