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Here are some recent items worth following: Viva la Revolution! – Remember a year ago when we were cheering the Egyptian revolutionaries and talking about how the non-political Muslim Brotherhood would finally be free to help provide relief for the common citizen? Let’s follow up and see how that’s working out, shall we? But I’m [...]

First, an account from someone living in Japan.  The moral of the story is that disaster is something Japan has trained for, and in many ways they are better prepared for crisis management than most of us here in the US. Next, the person above links to an explanation of how Japan’s nuclear reactors work [...]

Okay, for the record, let me say that I luuuv Netflix. (In a totally manly, platonic way, of course. Like how I luuuuv my Colt 1911 or my XBox.)  However, this morning while checking my feed reader I found out that Netflix didn’t love me back. Imagine my how crushed I felt when I learned [...]

The media does a great job of telling us what’s wrong with each other, but it sucks at spreading good news. I guess that means it’s up to me. Here are some good things happening in the world.

Very early in my marriage, my wife and I read Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus. Laugh if you want, but it got us through that first year. One of the take-away messages was that you can’t dictate your partner’s feelings. No matter how irrational or misapplied, you just can’t tell your loved [...]