London was easy; Bucharest is the beginning our challenge. Little to no knowledge of language, culture, bureaucracy, or geography puts us at a disadvantage in every respect. Americans are terribly insulated, and we discover that we are no different. When our flight arrived later than we had anticipated we had assumed ourselves too late to […]
For our fleeting stay in London, to describe it in one word: Youthful. For a city with an official history going all the way back to 50 CE, a vibrant youthful optimism and exuberance permeates the streets. We American millennials call it “the hustle,” but to the twenty and thirty something Londoners who seem to […]
***WARNING: MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD. IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN WONDER WOMAN AND WISH TO AVOID SPOILERS THEN PLEASE READ NO FURTHER.*** For it’s overt simplicity Wonder Woman is a ridiculously complex movie, full of big ideas stashed away in the dialog and cinematography that leap out at you like angry bears. Yes, bears, because if […]
One of this week’s top headlines at Salon.com: “America hits peak anti-intellectualism: Majority of Republicans now think college is bad” First, let me say outright I am not a qualified expert in anything. With that out of the way anyone reading further may dismiss everything I have to say as the unqualified opinions and observations […]
In 1980, a year before I was born, Ronald Reagan rode a wave of economic neoliberalism to a sweeping electoral victory. To his supporters he promised economic prosperity through deregulation, a return to American exceptionalism and traditional values, and to restore America’s moral majority. It was a time of great pride–if you were an Evangelical, […]