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  • The Character of Japan

    Which of the following statements comes closest to describing how you feel, on the whole, about the people who live in Japan?

    The Japanese people will always want to go to war to make themselves as powerful as possible – 35%

    The Japanese people may not like war, but they have shown that they are too easily [...]

  • Information Overload(ed)

    I am sure we all suffer from it. I don’t mean that you can’t mentally handle all the information and go into drooling stupor at some point. I mean that there is too much information to process, robbing us of time we need to get real work done. Teh Internets provide such aimless joy as [...]

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  • What is the basis of Mugabe’s support?

    In the late 1990s, Robert Mugabe began confiscating private property of (white) farmers in a rather disgusting “land redistribution” plan. That was the beginning of Zimbabwe’s nightmare. Overnight the country was turned from the breadbasket of Africa to a food importer. The economy began to implode. Inflation jumped into absurd numbers. [...]

  • 120 years of Roman History in 40 hours

    22 hours of Rome, 12 hours of I, Claudius, and 6 hours of Masada

    The turn of the millenia two thousand years ago is perhaps the most tumultuous period of Roman history that changed the face of Europe forever. Several television series have explored the transformation of Rome from a republic to an empire, and [...]

  • First Spanglish, now Hinglish

    Sent by a colleague; comments below.

    Changing lingo: Hinglish in, English out

    LONDON: Hinglish, Chinglish and Spanglish are as English as the language traditionally said to belong to the British Queen, a revolutionary new prescription says, arguing that new arrivals to Britain should not be taught Queen’s English but cultural mixes used by non-native speakers in territories [...]

  • 5 Things

    Okay… so I don’t have any cats. I am more of a dog man. I try to keep my online identity fairly compartmentalized, but I thought today I might share a few things in the manner of the oft seen Five Things You Might Not Know About Me meme. Most of you know that I [...]

  • I’m free!

    YH sings, “No more sailors, no more boats, no more bunker delivery notes!”

    Today was my last day as a bunker agent. By far, the worst experience in my life. If you want to know why, read my post On Leadership.

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