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Team Obama 2010 Member!

…but trying to get out of these is like trying to get out of Alcatraz. d.  Comcast – Comcast has the crappiest website on the planet and even though they offer to let you make a “one time payment” it often crashes.  Then, you’re not sure if you’ve paid or not and if you didn’t you get slapped with a $25 late charge.  That happened to me and I had to talk to Rashesh,,, er,, I mean “Tom” on their customer service chat.  For those that have not done…

SPEAK AMERICAN – Fun lesson in language

…and repeated a number of times.  Eventually, the original meaning would become completely lost. I’m not sure if I can think of a super great example to demonstrate but I’ll give it a go.  I won’t use English/French/Spanish because they are too close on the linguistic tree.  Instead, let’s do English/Japanese. –  English – I want to eat spaghetti The stress of this sentence is on “I.” – Japanese – Spaghetti tabetai – Spagetti wants to be eaten The…

Disoriented

…t the only solution is to kill. Being in this house alone, watching war in High Definition, watching politicians give their support for further war completely depresses me. I almost wish I was not human, did not belong to this group that continues to kill over and over. I hear the rationale, the reasoning and it is as if the chimps are chattering, beating their chests and I wonder, why can I not understand them? So, further in-depth posts will com

Saigon Fashion on a Motorbike

…the city as it might seem. The Vietnamese have a very innate sense of traffic and the motorbikes remind me of a school of fish which avoids collisions…. usually. Even if you get in a crash the speeds are not very high and everyone is usually alright. The true danger lies on the freeways when there are accidents at high speeds and the fatalities are pretty high. So if your thinking about driving across Vietnam on a motorbike you should probably not…

Low Expectations for new UN Agency, UN Women.

…he first time the United Nations has created a unified body for women with high-level leadership. But how good it will be depends on the leadership appointed, the resources committed and the support from all U.N. member states and all the other U.N. agencies.” Indeed, the success will depend on both leadership, funding and support from all UN members. Judging from how the UN Human Rights Council has become an instrument for advancing own political…