Henry here.
Here is an article in this morning’s Daily News which tickled my fantasy.
Here a 28 year old man, Bonaventure from Burundi (his friend’s call him Bones), wants to marry his fiancée but is lacking a dowry. He figures that he will have to give his future father-in-law some 12 cows as a dowry. […]
What do you make of Secretary Rumsfeld? Perhaps he is doing a good job, but I don’t think so. None of us is looking over his shoulder, so how can we know? Today I am more interested in his personality type.
According to the Los Angels Times, one time Secretary Kissinger “once complained that Rumsfeld […]
Steve here. Who says that romance is dead? In this age of quicky marriages, quikcy divorces and the apparent breakdown of long-term relationships, it’s nice to see that some people still have their feet on the ground. Forbes.com reports that The Journal Of Political Economy recently ran an article by Lena Edlund and Evelyn […]
Henry here. CNN reports in its entertainment section that audiences were moved to tears by the depiction of the flight on 9/11 of “United 93”, in which the passengers tried to wrestle the plane back from hijackers before it was crashed into a field, killing everyone.
My guess is that many Americans will think […]
Steve here. Most entrepeneurs are intuitives and sometimes intuitives get it right and sometimes they don’t. I’m not trying to be negative, but it seems to me that these guys in Perth Australia may have gone a little off course. They’ve created a tourist ride where people roll past mannequins simulating sex acts, including Loreena […]
Henry today. The Vancouver Sun reports that there is a considerable uproar in Canada over the fact that the government has banned the media from covering the arrival home of four soldiers killed in Afganastan.
Some people, even people who have lost children in the wars, are very supportive of the presence of the media. […]