Yes, 2008 is the year. Not only the financial crisis, but two defining moments in August. The Beijing olympics, which ushered in the era of China as a superpower, and that fateful day (08/08/08) when… (View Post)

Read the standing orders! So we now know Pezeshkian is representing one faction in a divided leadership. (View Post)

The American sense of entitlement this last few days has been breathtaking. Allies it has insulted and threatened repeatedly over the past year, now expected to come running to its aid. They are inca… (View Post)

America is not our ally. (View Post)

I’m a veteran of random fines. They’re almost impossible to avoid around here: stopping in bus lanes, school streets, LTNs, you name it. It’s like trying to stay healthy in a city ravaged by a typhoi… (View Post)