I am becoming more mindful of my readership these days, since becoming aware that they are increasingly from the Middle East and less from the USA. I am also becoming decidedly disinterested in American politics…
Well, Russia is very much on everyone’s mind at this moment, of course.Western minds anyway – the West concerned with Putin upon the Ukraine while we in the Middle East are concerned with Yemini drones…
This from the January 25, 2022 Gulf News. “UAE is a scintillating mix of hyper-modernity and deep-rooted tradition. The country has positioned itself behind an aim to make the Middle East a better place to…
This morning I am practicing incredible, amazing restraint. Breakfasting at Costa, conveniently located in my hotel. Instead of donuts, instead of croissants, instead of muffins (and the list goes on) – I am having porridge….
Woke up in a funk but have managed to get myself out of that selfish place. Now I am at breakfast – prepared by the staff at the Nuevo Restaurant at the Premier Inn. I…
An tremendously enlightening article in the New Yorker about the spread of the virus begins in this manner. “There’s an urban legend about a Texas man who takes a rifle to the side of his…
It is decidedly early in the morning, 5:51 to be exact. I am pursuing Instagram and also looking at emails. Waiting in my inbox was an Any Borowitz satire straight from The New Yorker to…
I am in an extremely good mood despite the fact that there is bad news, perhaps frightening news might surround me. But first the good news. Faithful readers will now that I am paid handsomely,…
One has to admit that this is a catchy title. The beginning of it anyway. I woke this morning after a wonderful rest – All Praise to Allah. I busied myself before morning prayers by…
I opened email this very morning and discovered something quite wonderful from Andy Borowitz which deals with my favorite topic which is stupidity. “After being heard on a hot mike calling a Republican senator a…