Posts Tagged ‘Rice’
Posted on April 11, 2008 - by Venik
DoD Investigates eBay; Smokes Crack
In “Stolen DoD Equipment Selling on EBay” on April 11, 2008, the Associated Press reports that the Department of Defense is investigating sales of “stolen and sensitive US military equipment” on eBay. Apparently DoD investigator purchased a dozen such items on eBay and Craigslist. Many of these items are on the US Munitions List and [...]
Posted on February 29, 2008 - by Venik
Western Journalists in Russia: Dazed and Confused
I just finished reading AP’s “Putin is leaving presidency, but Putinism is now Russia’s political orthodoxy” (Associated Press, 2008-Feb-29). It is truly amazing how little Western journalists know about Russia’s politics, economy and history. It is equally surprising how perverted the concept of democracy has become in its American interpretation. Apparently, when a government leader [...]
Posted on February 16, 2008 - by Venik
Shooting Back at College Bureaucracy
So why are American college students shooting each other? Well, the quick answer is: because they have guns. It’s actually pretty difficult to shoot someone if you don’t have a gun. The Second Amendment guarantees us the right to bear arms. The amendment was ratified in 1791 when the best gun around was a tripod-mounted, [...]
Posted on January 11, 2008 - by Venik
Presidential primaries and the idiot’s war
Like many of you, I was watching the Democratic presidential debates. They almost convinced me to vote Republican for the first time ever. The first question on the agenda: nuclear terrorism and, of course, Osama. According to the leading economists, the country is heading toward a deep recession (1). Even with the buy-out of Countrywide, [...]
Posted on December 10, 2007 - by Venik
Grand Hyatt New York, Part II
To continue where I left off: the expectation of the fifty-dollar breakfast. The previous night I requested the breakfast to be delivered to my room between 6:30 and 7am. It arrived fashionably late at 7:10am, wrapped in cellophane like a TV dinner. It was supposed to be a Japanese breakfast with miso soup, grilled salmon, [...]
Posted on December 10, 2007 - by Venik
Grand Hyatt New York, Part I
So here I am, sitting in my overpriced room on the 23-rd floor of the Grand Hyatt in Manhattan. The problem is not with the room – the room is not bad. A little dusty, but OK. I am not a picky person. I’ve seen worse. There was something gelatinous floating in the toilet, so [...]
Posted on December 3, 2007 - by Venik
Western press on Russian elections
I guess sometimes the desire to criticize is just too overwhelming to resist. Western journalist covering the Russian elections resemble a herd of wildebeest crossing a river, falling prey to logic and common sense. An unstoppable desire to print something scathing, and brutal, and full of appearance of righteous indignation. It doesn’t matter if the [...]
