July 28, 2009
'If at First You Don't Succeed, Try Interning' - 02:34 PMAh, the interns. I wonder how many businesses would collapse tomorrow without them? N status - "Funny how when you're paid well, you do very little work and when you do work to the point of exhaustion, you get paid...
July 27, 2007
'Life After SIPA - Tartus' - 10:38 AMI suppose I should get this off now, as the next few days are looking a little hectic and I'm starting to forget things from last weekend. We're all heading to the Marine Barracks bar ("Chesty's") for happy hour tonight,...
July 23, 2007
'Life After SIPA - Iraqi Refugees in Syria' - 12:23 PM(Posted with pictures at TheMorningsidePost.com) Helal is an Iraqi refugee, here with his family (wife and two daughters). He's been in Damascus for four years, meaning he got out pretty early after the present war started. These days he works...
'Life After SIPA - Syria and Lebanon' - 12:20 PM
I've settled into something approaching a routine here. (I've put up some pics on Facebook. For those who have access click here and here, sorry about the blurry ones!) I've had two weeks of classes at the University of Damascus...
'Life After SIPA - Damascus' - 12:14 PM
(This and the next few entries are also posted at TheMorningsidePost.com - I figured I might as well make use of my own blog as well.) One of the many things that news coverage of the Middle East never quite...
June 28, 2006
'Beirut - Week One' - 03:15 AMThe lights of Beirut shimmer out of the humid Mediteranean air around 3:00 AM, Lebanon time. This is a city of mysteries. Like, "Why is at least half of this plane full of children under the age of six, when...
March 27, 2006
'Culture Talk II: The Bloggening' - 04:28 PMMy good friend Andy at the Great Concavity plopped a massive comment on my Culture Talk post, and he's also posted it on his blog, thus my similarly lengthy reply gets its own separate post as well....
March 26, 2006
'Culture Talk' - 12:32 PMOrlando Patterson, professor of sociology at Harvard, tackles the problem of young-black-male disconnection from society in today's New York Times: SEVERAL recent studies have garnered wide attention for reconfirming the tragic disconnection of millions of black youths from the American...
July 04, 2005
'Happy 4th of July' - 12:40 PMIf there's any day of the year we spend remembering and celebrating the things that have made this country great, it's today. 231 years ago we began the long painful process of building a nation founded on lofty ideals and...
June 09, 2005
'Predictions' - 07:32 AMA couple prognostications from us here at Rational Grounds. There will not be peace until the ethnic and regional militias in Iraq are gone. A government that accepts or embraces independent armed forces within its borders is not in control....