Author: mike

The West’s interest in Afghanistan goes back a long way – it’s always been the strategic high ground in the Middle East. In 510 BC, a Greek guy called Skylax was working for the...

Flight 93 (the one that crashed in Pennsylvania). Did it crash, or was it shot down? Who were the passengers on board who said they were going to try to overpower the hijackers? How...

That wizened guy on The Price is Right is veggie? This I did not know. Him, Hitler, me, Madonna. What an illustrious list.

Third dental visit in a month – I am beginning to feel like some sort of research project. At least I get amusing anecdotes. The hygienist is full of stories about how she spent...

Finally sorted out this stupid DNS stuff. So now meehawl.com and mikerogers.net should resolve to 64.81.53.87 – or whatever if it becomes non-static. God bless dyndns.

I am so glad that, having never been butchered while but a helpless newborn, I’ll never have to join this bunch of busy. desperate guys. Found this here and here. I love problem pages.

Just how badly has globalized moneterism failed to achieve universal prosperity for all? In the United States, the median real wage is about the same today as it was 28 years ago.This means that...

What exactly is “globalization” all about? The IMF/World Bank/WTO knowingly bribe local officials to sell off national assets cheaply, deliberately push people into the poverty trap to inflame “social unrest” so that Western companies...

I made a new friend at the Tenderloin street theatre festival a couple of weeks ago! It was kind of neat – I went with Lisa whose finely honed dramatic instincts were distinctly not...

This is super sad. What was it like to be a Westerner in Afghanistan in the 1970s, before the Cold War between the US and the USSR turned it to shit? On Chicken Street...