Late last week, the House of Representatives announced they were seeking additional funding for the Cash for Clunkers program. The program, which allocated 1 billion dollars in subsidies and government assistance to those trading older, less fuel efficient cars for newer models with better gas mileage, will shut down Tuesday without new funding despite being [...] Read more »
My heart is racing. It thumps in sync with the seriously cheesy Rammstein music blasting on the stereo. Hey, don’t judge me. It happens to be what keeps me pumped up. The mask itches. It makes me feel like Ralphie in his bunny suit from A Christmas Story, but I look more like a bank [...] Read more »
The moat around the old city in Chiang Mai glows late at night. For more brilliant pictures of Thailand, click here. I guess it’s simply the luck of the draw that no matter how good a time we have in our destination, our travel between places just doesn’t quite work out. Standing in the train [...] Read more »
Light slips in through cracks, illuminating the longhouse provided for us in Karen. For more serene photographs of Thailand, click here. In the mountains outside the city of Chiang Mai lies a series of villages which are merely referred to as Ban Mai in Thai. To the people of these villages, our guide Samruam (Sam [...] Read more »
Hammocks at Jeff’s Pirate Cove are clearly marked for “adult relaxation only.” For more adult pictures of Guam, click here. As I hiked past old ordinance, decaying weapons, the rusted silhouettes of old buildings and crumbled latte stones (that’s lah-tee, not lah-tay), I began to wonder what life on Guam is truly like. Here [...] Read more »
The other day, someone posted a thread to the message boards I go to asking us to name two things we though the opposite political party was doing right and two things our political affiliation was doing wrong. At first I was all excited about this thread. I thought to myself, “man! This is your [...] Read more »
These are three things which can’t coexist at the same time. Rush Limbaugh, Jim Rome, Jim O’Brian, Jerry Falwell. These are names synonymous with blatantly bandying opinions about. They’re angry, they’re loud, and they’re not afraid to talk about it. The problem is that even their valid, and perhaps smart (though I doubt it), opinions [...] Read more »