Would you fill up your SUV gas tank with 2% Low Fat Milk at $2.99.9 (there’s always a .9 on fuel prices)? Remember, currently gasoline is now averaging $3.29.9…
I used to half-seriously tell my urban planning grad students that, if they were the type of people who kept there socks neatly in their sock drawer and their underwear…
In one of the early scenes of Ragtime (1981) a piano player watches pictures on a silent screen and causally fits his music to first a one-reeler and then some newsreels. A…
The word could be translated as “the words of God,” or “the study of God.” Presumably this putative “body of knowledge” is like other –ologies. Except that there is…
Friends sometimes ask me why I have returned so many times to live in Hong Kong. It’s not the Cantonese food. As I age, it is less and less the…
A news item on Hong Kong television in early March shows four local boys in their late teens emerging for an all-night McDonalds and striding down the street abreast like…
The only thing that George Bush has that distinguishes his presidency is preemptive war in Iraq. Prior to 9-11 he was widely regarded as a buffoon who had won high…
I already knew that there are people who die on cruise ships. But when the lady sitting next to me a today’s bible study meeting leaned over and told me…
When I first began foreign travel over thirty years ago I brought with me a bottle of aspirin. I do remember using them. These days It looks like my suitcase…
Mr. McGuire: I just want to say one word to you – just one word. Ben: Yes sir. Mr. McGuire: Are you listening? Ben: Yes I am. Mr. McGuire: ‘Plastics.’…