When the Srebrenica massacre took place, in 1995, I had a limited understanding of what was happening in the world. But 2 years later I reached an age where I became conscious of the world beyond my school and the unnecessary suffering and destruction in different parts of the...
Staying with the issue of Darfur, on the heels of yesterday's podcast, I noticed an interesting study on public opinion of the Darfur situation in the US, published on the PEW center's site. (love PEW center because I have the patience and the time to read through their numbers...
Sitting in the heart of the Jordaan this evening, as boats sailed by, bikes rattled past, and drunken teenagers hobbled from bar to bar, I spent some quality time with a very special girl. She graduated, as did I, from the U of Amsterdam, and during her studies...
Let me just preface this post with one thing I want to be clear on: I'm not being sarcastic on this one. Matter of fact, remind me not to use sarcasm as a regular method of blogging, it's a lazy cop out I occasionally fall into. I digress,...
