February 9, 2012 Maxim
"Confidence is what you have before you understand the problem." Woody Allen American...
Geopolitical Thinking II
We all know about the recent discovery of vast amounts of natural gas and oils shale in North America and Northern...
Simon Says Postcards 02/07/2012
Safed in Israel, like Santa Fe, NM, has turned its remote beauty and implied spirituality into a hundred gift...
Geopolitical Thinking I
I'm struck by the idea that the US, and others in the West, may be trying to goad Iran into a war. Before they get...
Super Parade Opportunity
Most holidays have parades. People like parades. They like to be in parades. But Superbowl Sunday doesn't have a...
Business Class Interstate Travel
It would be great if you could stop and get great food when you are driving between big cities like Los Angeles to San...
Egyptian Soccer Hooligans
In the UK soccer hooligans are a cultural phenomenon that have over the past few decades caused dozens of deaths and...
February 2, 2012 Maxim
"In the centuries following the Peloponnesian War, Athens became the first in a long line of senescent Western powers...
660 Miles
It is roughly 660 miles from Ashland, Oregon to Pasadena, California and I am proof that you can easily drive it in a...
Simon Says Postcards 1/31/2012
“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other places.” Aldous Huxley Simon on...
