History’s High Note
Posted on November 6, 2008 - Filed Under Culture | Leave a Comment
“History sometimes hits a high note, sweet and soaring, clean and clear, as if from Satchmo’s horn.”
Dayan Jayatilleka - Diplomat to the UN from Sri Lanka
I was optimistic that the election of Barack Obama would be a world-changing event, but I didn’t realize that the celebrations in the US and many countries around the world […]
Read More..>>My Close Encounter With Obama in Hawaii By Pico Iyer
Posted on November 5, 2008 - Filed Under Culture, Misc. | Leave a Comment
One of the worlds most insightful and sensitive travel writers comments on his encounter with Barack Obama.
From Time Magazine
Rational Exuberance: The Optimistic Traveler
Posted on November 1, 2008 - Filed Under Culture, Misc. | Leave a Comment
REVISION: The elections are over and for the first time America has a president that represents all of America and will do so to the rest of the world. I was at an election night party last night where we all toasted with pride that we could now go anywhere in the world and be […]
Read More..>>Ron Paul Country: Mongolia in California
Posted on January 14, 2008 - Filed Under California, Culture | Leave a Comment
California is, for the most part, Mongolia. Erase the coasts and the canals that suck water from the north to feed Big Asparagus and whiten the teeth of Valley Girls, it would be as desolate as the steppes of Central Asia. Driving through the high desert between Bakersfield and Las Vegas I note two landmarks: […]
Read More..>>Democracy and Debauchery
Posted on December 6, 2007 - Filed Under News, Audio, Travel Biz, Culture, Misc. | Leave a Comment
Oh, we Americans are a wild and crazy bunch: toiling hard and productively, spreading democracy by day…partying hard by night. Or is it partying day and night? According to a new report on travel trends, we Yanks are binge drinking, G-string snapping “debaucherists,” longing for the eternal spring break.
This report, put out by the […]
