Flares into Darkness

Yikes! That's some downhill street course for a bike. I'm not sure I would even want to be a spectator standing in some of the par...

North Korea is the most opaque country in the world. The few traveler's accounts of visiting the country are little more than a litany o...

If you're so inclined, take a break from the news of the day and play The Great Gatsby for NES .  It is an old school side scroller wi...

Burial of the Flowers - Cao Xueqin Flowers fade and fly, and flying fill the sky; Their bloom departs, their perfume gone, yet who st...

The situation is Wisconsin has spun itself into an extraordinary story. We all know the outline of it - Governor Walker proposed his Budget ...

This week's Stratfor article concerns the case of Raymond Davis. If you're not familiar with the story, Davis is a low level securit...

Today is Abraham Lincoln's birthday. Above is my favorite picture of him. It is called the  Cracked glass portrait of Lincoln, was take...

This week's Stratfor article concerns the strategic quandary that would face Israel should the uprising in Egypt lead to the cancellatio...

When Obama claimed he was a huge Bears fan I figured he was just making that up to foster some "Man O' The People" cred. Howe...

Above is an Australian educational film which was made in the the 1980s and only recently 'discovered'. It gives tips on surviving...

  The other day I stumbled across Julian Wolkenstein's post Symmetrical Portraits . He took frontal photos of people, and then split th...

The most recent Stratfor article discusses using social media as a tool for protest. The hot babe I've chosen to link to the article - i...

Any regular reader of this blog knows that I have little use for Obama. However, the notion that Obama fumbled away Egypt is misguided in ...

You probably think that the Mongol slashing their way through Europe and Asia were a bad thing. Over the course of two centuries they destro...

Tuesday, during a discussion of the Chicago Mayoral election a guest said something about Rahm Emanuel being in the crosshairs of his oppone...

Necessity is the mother of invention. Space is at such a premium in Japan that they'll build extremely narrow buildings to fit into rec...

This Stratfor article concerns the seemingly never ending Moslem outrage over the Mohamed cartoons. They were published 5 years ago and plot...

On New Year's Eve the Los.Angeles Times posted the article Biden is a linchpin of Obama's presidency . As you can probably guess fr...

The latest Miss Venezuela, the lovely Reina Bella Guerrero, is a Barbie doll. The contest was held in Caracas in early December, and the ab...

When Ambi Jr. was but a young sprout he used to love claw crane games. Those are the machines where you maneuver a little crane to grab a to...