by aaron | Dec 28, 2010 | blog
Earlier this week I wrote about Seraphim, a Greek Orthodox Bishop who made the news recently for blaming – amongst other things – Jewish bankers for the Holocaust. Surprisingly enough Seraphim’s comments caused a bit of stir in Greece and abroad,...
by aaron | Dec 22, 2010 | blog
I like folks who believe strongly in conspiracy theories. I’m not inherently bent towards such thoughts, but whenever I come across them – the stream of myths surrounding the Knights Templar, the never-ending debate about the JFK assassination, NASA on...
by aaron | Dec 21, 2010 | blog, not-fiction
One month ago my neighbor Joe was murdered fifty feet up the street from my apartment. Joe lived two houses away. He was 58-years old. Joe liked to smoke cigarettes as he leaned against the fence in the back alley. He had two dogs, Rusty and Jake. Joe had a...
by aaron | Dec 20, 2010 | blog
One of the first big polysyllabic words I remember learning as a kid was Sesquicentennial. The word refers to a time period of 150-years (sesqui = one-and-a-half + cetennial = 100). I learned this word when the small town in Michigan where I grew up had its very...
by aaron | Dec 18, 2010 | blog
Today, Congress finally repealed the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy that had been governing military procedures vis-a-vis homosexuality since 1993. Upon passage of the resolution, Senate leaders called the requisite press conference and began the...