Well, It's been over a  month.   So I have been diligently scanning all the major news outlets, government websites, and emergency s...

Just read it.. please. ----------------------------- Dear Prime Minister, M Rogge, Lord Coe and Members of the International Olympic ...

In these early days of the 21rst Century, the concept of "celebrity" has evolved into a very odd thing indeed. In our culture o...

I don’t have one of those horrific, tragic and ultimately triumphant coming out stories.  My story is actually pretty boring... Yes lik...

Apparently  the issue of  the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi  is something a lot of folks are talking about...

It seems that the Sochi Winter Games are a massive boondoggle of corruption and environmental damage. The Economist looks into the state...

There once was a country that was due to host  the next  Winter Olympic Games.  This nation had worked very hard  to secure the games. ...

Well,  it's been  nearly  3 weeks  since I've posted here, and as is usually the case  with blogging pauses, there has been  quite ...

I am generally a very empathetic and  caring person,  so  I am  not given to bouts of   Schadenfreude.   (For those of you  whose German is...

Well now... It's been a pretty exciting  couple days. The two recent United States Supreme Court rulings on the issue of Marriage Equ...