How I spent my hard earned tax dollars. (volume 2)

I swear I am not picking on the military this week, but how could I resist this?
A Berkeley watchdog organization that tracks military spending said it uncovered a strange U.S. military proposal to create a hormone bomb that could purportedly turn enemy soldiers into homosexuals and make them more interested in sex than fighting.
You know [...]

Color me ironic

At a time when my sum contribution has been a decided lack of thought, I get tagged with a Thinking Blogger Award. Thank you very much Lori for thinking of me!
I’ve decided to dedicate this thoughtful post to a man who was quite painfully devoid of thought. A man who dedicated his life to the [...]

Inspirational Dysfunction

Lately I have been lacking for inspiration to post new articles here. It’s the nature of the blog beast really. At some point in time you get this lurking sense of futility or redundancy. I’m not sure what I’ll do with this site yet. I have to go out of town for a couple days [...]

Offline

Just so anyone who wants to know can know, I’m still traveling. Updates will resume later this week I hope.
- shawn

2007 Quality of living index

If you’re Swiss, Canadian or from New Zealand (yea, I didn’t know if the correct term was New Zealander) you should be proud. Zurich, Geneva, Vienna, Vancouver, and Auckland remain the top scoring cities on the Quality of Living index. I love these kind of comparative lists. The top 5 are:

Zurich, Switzerland : [...]