Karen and Ivan with Mayor Bloomberg of New York City at Gracie Mansion, 18 July 2005. “I told him I was voting for him, even without the picture. He said he would take the picture anyway.” Karen is upset with
The public meeting this week between Israeli and Pakistani officials in Turkey, following months if not decades of private meetings, carries a punch above its weight in the Moslem world and reflects certain opportunities which may not be immediately apparent
Don’t you just love America….Grannies suing a video game maker over hidden sex scenes. Not that they are offended buying their grandkids games about cop-killing and car-stealing. Global Thoughts is getting more visitors than I thought — between 2,000 and
Here’s a few Hints. We’re reading ads about a store called Upper Breast Side…You bring your breast, we do the rest….My wife interrupted Friday Night Dinner’s blessing over the wine to go and throw up…. It took a top doctor
You don’t have to go across the globe to get thrown for a loop. Karen was hat-shopping in an Ultra-Orthodox neighborhood in Brooklyn where girls marry at age 16 and somehow the subject came up as to whether or not
Just returned from another round the world adventure. Cyprus is always a treat; Amman has good friends and conversation; Dubai is spectacular; India is a mess but a land of opportunity, and Singapore is a pleasant rest stop on the
Karen and I did something fun at home — we baked this 4-layer German chocolate cake. It was quite a monstrosity and there was no chance we could eat even a quarter of it, but it took 2 hours to
Holiday Season in New York Earlier this month Karen and I checked into the W Hotel on Times Square and pretended we were on vacation, and Manhattan during December is a real treat from the Tree at Rockefeller Center to
America Post-Election Bush got a mandate and the satisfaction of not being an accidental president. Everyone came out and voted, and plenty more voted for him than Kerry. The Republicans were the more disciplined party in the campaign, and the
Sometimes Politicians can exclaim; “It’s just a tax cut for the rich!”, and it is just accepted to be fact. But what does that really mean? Let’s put tax cuts in terms everyone can understand. Suppose that every day, ten
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