… number 4 S ome things you push out of your mind and, unfortunately, one of those that is gone is the name of hell hole #4. It’s a small village in Zambia, somewhere south of the capital Lusaka. It’s a dirt-poor agricultural community with a...
Excerpt from Don’t Touch My Junk People are outraged at the TSA’s [ed. the Transportation Security Administration of the USA] aggressive pat-downs and privacy-invading scans. Yet the TSA continues to foolishly pretend that everyone boarding a plane is equally...
Where will the security mania stop? T he bureaucratic and highly risk adverse mindset of the government department running airport security is leading to insanity. They refuse to accept that perfect safety is impossible. There is no way to remove all risk from life…...
… hunkering down L ake Winnipeg: the water is high today, the waves small and brittle. They crackle as they come in, snapping the air in anticipation of the coming snow and ice. Everything is grey. Everything waits. Everything is holding its breath. The dreaded...
Combating Immappacy I t is startlingly large… and most of us don’t know it. The continent is about 11.7 million miles² (30 million km²), which is big. That’s big enough to fit the USA, China, India, Japan and much of Europe within its borders. And...
… number 5 I t’s getting close to the end of the year, a traditional time for lists. My contribution to the rankings is my list of hell holes, places I’ve been that are simply lousy. Places that make me wonder why anyone stays put. As I continue to...
