I’m a longtime fan of message billboards and other roadside rhetoric. Nowadays I don’t get out to see them as much. But this week, the net brought a batch of striking new ones to me, from exotic Nebraska, mystic New Mexico,, And I couldn’t wait to share them. After all, they cover some of my … Continue reading A Blockbuster Billboard Bonanza & Its New Roadside Theology
[NOTE: No wonder D. C. is in such a terrible mess! This is clearly a job for the spotlight-shunning Friendly Homeland Security Emergency Rescue Team. Sound the Silent Alarms!] {UPDATE: The following article is not a spoof; as far as we know.] Welcome to POLITICO’s West Wing Playbook , your guide to the people and … Continue reading Gray Alert for U. S. Quakers: Help Find The Missing White House Meditation Room!
1. A Murder, a Diplomatic Dust-Up and the Risk of Impunity New York Times — Sept. 22, 2023 By Nicholas Kristof Father’s Day this year, two heavyset men were loitering near a Sikh temple in British Columbia. Then the president of the temple, a Canadian citizen and an activist named Hardeep Singh Nijjar, stepped out … Continue reading Two Views: Canada, India & An “Inconvenient” Assassination?
What’s BRICs? Does it Amount to Anything? Gwynne Dyer, August 31, 2023 What’s BRICs? Does it Amount to Anything? YOU can expand the curious organisation called the BRICS, but you can’t define it. In fact, it’s hardly even an organisation: no headquarters, no secretariat. Even the (British) Commonwealth and la Francophonie have more substance: at … Continue reading Gwynne Dyer: The Secret Life of BRICS
