Dive into the archives.
- Shop class with a bang
As a boy, Sean Carney would climb on Second World War tanks he saw in parks or in front of Legion halls. Yesterday, the 43-year-old shop teacher brought one to school. Automotive technology students at Etobicoke Collegiate Institute will be refurbishing the tank as part of their course. Mr. Carney, a military history buff, thought [...]
- I Depart
As I’ve previously mentioned, and as my absence has perhaps indicated, I’m leaving tonight on my big trip. I take a late flight to Istanbul, sleep over in the airport and catch my connection to Diyarbakir in the afternoon. I’ll be gone for the next three months but will be posting pictures and trip reports [...]
- Another CA Job Posting
In the spirit of passing on interesting job posts to readers, this might be of interest to some of you:
Stand-in mistress sought to take wife’s abuse
BEIJING (Reuters) – A Chinese businessman has advertised on the Internet for a stand-in mistress to be beaten up by his wife to vent her anger and to protect his [...]
- Late to bed, early to rise
Sorry I have not been posting much lately. I have been hard at work 16 hours a day at the ports in and around Nagoya. Above is a shot I took of the sunrise behind a container ship, a customer from yesterday. The Chief Engineer on that ship was crazy. Imagine a Korean Tommy Lee [...]
- Curzon has moved
Lady Curzon and I moved at the end of last year—and below are some pictures of a structure just minutes away from our house. Anyone want to guess where this skyline is?
- Meeting of the Blogs
Here in Stuttgart, Eddie from Live from the FDNF is visiting and we’ve been running around southern Germany having seen Tübingen, Stuttgart, Esslingen and Heidelberg. We’re about to head out for the day. Pictures to come soon.
- Another “special” ad
Below is a great commercial reminiscent of the other “special” ad featured on CA. I love this!
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- Use Brinkmanship on Iran
Thanks to Eddie for sending this along. From the LA Times:
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Use Brinkmanship on Iran
Any diplomatic effort by the U.S. won’t work unless backed up by a credible threat of force.
By Robert D. Kaplan, ROBERT D. KAPLAN is a national correspondent for the Atlantic Monthly and the author of “Imperial Grunts.”September 29, 2006
FOR [...]
- “Reduced to little hippie factories!”
Brussels Journal has this timely article on the perversion of western higher education over the past few decades. In a nutshell:
The vast majority of Middle East Studies programs are funded by the Saudis, resulting in the promotion of the Wahhabi view of Islam and buying influence over what Westerners hear about Islam. The [...]
- GWOT as WWIII
Roger of The Duck talks Hermann Kahn, the Ladder of Escalation, Israel, Hizballah, the future of American politics and Newt Gingrich which had this to say:
Look what you’ve been covering: North Korea firing missiles. We say there’ll be consequences, there are none. The North Koreans fire seven missiles on our Fourth of July; bombs going [...]
