The past few weeks have been quite strange. Not a week goes by that I don’t have a conversation with someone from the Middle East.
Just tonight at Starbucks I met an Egyptian brother who teaches Arabic and three Pakistani women who helped me with my Urdu. A few days ago at the same Starbucks I [...]
Entries from October 2008
October 19, 2008
Middle East Corona
October 13, 2008
Altars of Junk
I had the opportunity to stroll through much of downtown Laguna Beach the other night after dropping off one of the kids I live with and some of his friends at a jazz band concert. Walking by shop after shop selling exorbitantly-priced merchandise ranging from useless pieces of junk to vain and pointless articles of [...]
October 9, 2008
The Real Financial Crisis
A good friend of mine leaves for Zimbabwe this weekend to work among the poor for a few months. It seems appalling at best that we are in such a state of panic that we must dish out $700 billion that we don’t have when Zimbabwe’s inflation rate is around 230,000,000 percent. Americans are acting [...]
October 1, 2008
Thomas Watson is the Man, part 2
A couple more nuggets from some of my reading yesterday:
“What good will it do a man when he is in hell that others think he has gone to heaven? Oh, beware of this! Counterfeit piety is double iniquity.”
“Men think it a shame to be ignorant of their trade, but no shame to be ignorant of [...]
