>Iraqis Resort To Selling Children I am waiting for Windows XP SP2 to complete installing, and, as I am wont to doing in these episodes of spare time, I examine international news sources. This article in the English Al Jazeera edition caught my eye. I encourage all of my geography students to go outside the…
>Tata chosen as top bidder for Jaguar, Land Rover I know Ford Motor Company has been trying to make itself more profitable. Ford has been shedding people and trying to focus on maintaining market share against Toyota. In this article, Tata Motors of India has been identified as the new owner of Jaguar and Land…
> Thomas Friedman, New Times columnist, writing in a recent column, makes a motion to only support those candidates that unite Americans around “a common purpose, not a common enemy.” I second that motion. For the last six years, our country’s leadership has developed an extremely myopic view of American policy, whether it is domestic…
> What if we renamed some of our states using the name of the country whose GDP most closely matches the state GDP? That is the idea behind this map. The idea is not unique to me. I saw a similar map on another blog whose link I have lost. But having a mapping background…
> Lesser Berserkistan, of course! Sorry, Gary T. I didn’t get your permission to post. I do think that your treatment of these events hit home, however. Let’s form a sub-committee to investigate the deaths of hundreds, thousands, millions of people, e.g. Sudan/Darfur, Rwanda. Particularly while it is happening. Oh, yeah, while we are at…
In geography, we talk about devolution. Devolution is the breakdown of a state [country/nation] due to internal division. Some other terms that are also associated with devolution are Balkanization, Shatterbelt, and Failing/Failed States. When people within a region, whether that region be a state, nation, or realm, become disenfranchised with their government or method of…
>Can Islam and Democracy co-exist? Or, in other words, is a democracy the best form of government for Iraq, or for any other nation in the region, for that matter? Iraq is not the only example of U.S. regime change within the region, only the latest. To answer this question, I wanted to find evidence…
>America’s fastest-growing suburbs The migration to the Sunbelt continues. Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and southern California comprise the Sunbelt. The Sunbelt area has fewer cloudy days than many other areas of the country, hence the moniker, “Sunbelt.” Granted, the community of Lincoln, CA., is located on the fringe of the Sunbelt, but its growth seems…
Oil retards growth. The presence of oil retards growth. This flies in the face of conventional wisdom. This idea is not unique to me but I see validity within it. Let’s see if I can explain. Currently, as I write this, oil is priced about 76$/barrel, according to Bloomberg.com. A gallon of regular unleaded gas…
“The World Is Flat” should be required reading for every incoming college Freshman in the United States. We, the United States, is in BIG trouble. One, we are ignorant of the global forces at work around us. We are arrogant and see ourselves as The Bastion of Hope and Democracy. We are not. An arguement…
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