2023-03-30: The Mandalay Bay Massacre and Saudi Arabia Some have suggested that the death of 58 concert-goers in the Mandalay Bay massacre in Las Vegas in …
2023-03-29: Underground Bahrain Is there a Bahrain underground? This book answers that question and tells the story of its denizens.
2023-03-29: Underground Bahrain This book claims that there is an underground in Bahrain and tells the story of its denizens.
2023-03-17: Interesting Book This book claims that there is an underground in Bahrain and tells the story of its denizens.
2023-03-08: Instead He Wrote Howl
2023-03-03: Follow the Science The LGBTQ Community Causes Earthquakes, Concludes Rabbi
2023-03-02: Bremerton FAQ The U.S. Supreme Court has approved private, voluntary prayer at high school football games. The …
2023-02-28: The US Supreme Court The Court lost all intellectual integrity with Dobbs. It is now a political body whose decisions are …
2023-02-19: Film Firearm Rules Alex Baldwin has some ‘splainin to do. Rules on Set No clowning around! Anyone pointing firearms at …
2023-02-15: Mail in the Middle East Mail in the Middle East is routinely not delivered. Is this a cultural issue (mail in Riyadh was …
2023-02-15: Ten Tips for Going In-House Identify your Enemy This is probably the most important. Even if you join the large in-house legal …
2023-02-15: The Dark Forest Hypothesis
2023-02-13: So What If He Never Said It?
2023-02-13: Manufactured Crime Wastes Law Enforcement Resources They did it again. In the Liberty City 7 case, an FBI freelance troublemaker tried to convince a …
2023-02-12: A Den of Thieves Pennsylvania’s senator Fetterman just spent nine days in the hospital. “Sheriff” …
2023-02-12: Race/Ethnicity Imposters Anna Paulina Luna George Santos Rachel Dolezal Sherry Stanley Jimenez William Montgomery McGovern …
2023-02-12: Race/Ethnicity Imposters Anna Paulina Luna George Santos Rachel Dolezal Sherry Stanley Jimenez William Montgomery McGovern …
2023-02-06: Plastic Money After four days of using polypropylene currency: I don’t like it. It doesn’t fold. It …
2023-02-01: Horizontal Space in Ulysses If you need blank horizontal space in Ulysses, try using a UTF-8 space character. Ulysses does not …
2023-02-01: New Treasurer for George Santos Santos’ best bet now is to appoint a Portuguese-speaking treasurer living in a small town in …
2023-01-29: Killer Cops If the Memphis killer cops had been white, the country would be in flames.
2023-01-29: A Perfect Day for an Exorcism In order to expel evil from her home after the attempt on her husband’s life, House Speaker Nancy …
2023-01-26: The Nature of the Law
2023-01-26: Monterey Park Motive A bitter, lonely old man with access to an assault weapon decided to share the pain of loneliness …
2023-01-24: The $750,000 Santos Mystery Solved Drumroll please: the mystery of the Santos $750,000 campaign contribution solved.
2023-01-24: The $750,000 Santos Mystery Solved Drumroll please: the mystery of the Santos $750,000 campaign contribution solved. santos …
2023-01-23: Lawyers: How to Differentiate Lawyers fail to monetize their networks. This often has value. Instead, lawyers pretend that it …
2023-01-21: Lawyers: How to Differentiate Lawyers fail to monetize their networks. This often has value. Instead, lawyers pretend that it …
2023-01-19: Give Santos a Break OK, he lied. He’s not Jewish, his grandparents had nothing to do with the Holocaust, he didn’t work …
2023-01-19: George Santos: American Really, what is more American than the grift? George Santos “embellished” his resumé, not worrying …
2023-01-18: Give Santos a Break OK, he lied. He’s not Jewish, his grandparents had nothing to do with the Holocaust, he didn’t work …
2023-01-15: Cali’s New Evidentiary Rule No longer can rap lyrics be held against their author in a criminal trial, a new California law …
2023-01-15: Horizontal Space in Ulysses If you need blank horizontal space in Ulysses, try using a UTF-8 space character. Ulysses does not …
2023-01-15: Dobbs Leak Investigation Update
2023-01-15: Militarized Police If anyone doubts how militarized US law enforcement has become, look at these badged, armed idiots …
2023-01-15: Dark Forces Apparently, this is still needed since the conspiracy theorists have suggested that dark forces have …
2023-01-14: Schooling for Seniors While previously I focused on Southern Illinois University’s “Returning Scholar Program” and its …
2023-01-10: Stackexchange Editor Problem
2023-01-03: How to Find a Lawyer Overseas Need a lawyer overseas? How do you find one? It really depends on the country and the type of case. …
2023-01-03: The Santos Protocol A New Way to Find a Job Today’s job hunt should start with careful invention following the example …
2023-01-03: The Santos Protocol A New Way to Find a Job Today’s job hunt should start with careful invention following the example …
2023-01-02: How an Apostrophe Almost Landed Me in Jail John Delorean I feel for those whose surnames include a ‘de, di, la’, an ‘al-’, …
2022-12-16: You asked, We quacked
2022-12-12: But Britney’s a Special Case Britney Griner was benefited in more ways than one by the extraordinary prisoner exchange with …
2022-12-07: Horizontal Space in Ulysses If you need blank horizontal space in Ulysses, try using a UTF-8 space character. Ulysses does not …
2022-12-04: Eastern Brown Snake I had a conversation about these critters last week. They are found, fortunately enough, in …
2022-11-29: The Duke of Sodom and a Time Travel Mystery Solved I came across a reference, in a new biography of Colette, to the “Duke of Sodom,” a French dandy, …
2022-11-25: Paul Pelosi Update While the arresting officers’ body cams have not been released, at least one journalist has seen the …
2022-11-25: An Act of Charity A young mother with her malnutritioned two year old son has staked out a begging post at the …
2022-11-21: Moving Tips Two ideas: throw stuff out. 10% won’t survive the move anyway. Put stuff in storage. If you …
2022-11-21: The Gerontocracy The American president is eighty years old. Eighty. Years. Old. We are ruled by a gerontocracy. …
2022-11-18: Brooks Sentenced to 762 Years in Prison Darrell Brooks, the Waukesha hit and run murderer, was sentenced this week to six consecutive life …
2022-11-05: Twitter’s 8 Bucks Plan If Twitter: –starts charging $8 for verification to meet KYC (Know Your Customer) anti-money …
2022-10-16: Saudis Help Achieve Ukrainian Prisoner Exchange Perhaps the US would be wise to stop insulting the Saudi petroleum minister and attacking the Saudis …
2022-10-11: More on the Mail; a Trystero in Panama and a Lonely Parrot The predilection for writing letters did not begin in Bahrain. In another lifetime, I worked for the …
2022-10-10: The Stateless Suckling An infant lay in a baby carriage in front of the photo studio. I was there to get visa pictures as …
2022-10-09: Drug War News One undiscussed aspect of the pardon is whether those who are incarcerated on other offenses, but …
2022-09-07: Laptop Landlords Property owners who delegate rental management to local companies an who may never even have visited …
2022-08-09: US v. UK In the US, it’s .” In the UK, it’s ”. When writing Markdown, it’s *. or .* Because it doesn’t matter …
2022-07-22: Typewriters Typing envelopes is a practical use for a typewriter. By the time you: open a WP program find …
2022-07-18: A Unanimous Decision In 1975, the US Senate unanimously agreed to posthumously restore citizenship to Robert E. Lee and …
2022-07-15: No Intellectual Integrity It is now silly to pretend that there is any intellectual integrity to Supreme Court decisions. For …
2022-07-14: Saudi Biden Fist-Bump News This is the kind of nonsense I’d expect from grifters, con artists and others of that ilk. In …
2022-07-14: Cosplaying Coward Cops While the killer murders children, cosplaying coward cops make sure their hands are sanitized. The …
2022-07-05: Quemoy and Matsu 60 years after arguing about Quemoy and Matsu we’re still arguing about Quemoy and Matsu.
2022-07-05: Bahrain Stats Good news Bahrain: The number of Active Covid-19 cases is dropping. 12,747 as of 4 July. There is …
2022-07-04: Soul-Eating Monster Q. “We are playing the conference champions next week and our team has had a dismal record. …
2022-07-01: Football Prayer Rug American Muslims: now that the US Supreme Court in Bremerton has approved midfield prayer during …
2022-07-01: June Stats June stats: the number of Active Covid-19 cases in Bahrain has started to level off, with daily …
2022-06-28: Bremerton FAQ The U.S. Supreme Court has approved private, voluntary prayer at high school football games. The …
2022-06-22: “Historic” Legislation The proposed “historic” American gun legislation is anything but: no restrictions on …
2022-06-22: Protecting Democracy What’s strange– and really more dangerous than anything else –is that both sides …
2022-06-20: No More English Efforts to “de-gender” the English language by using neologisms (e.g. “latinx”) have …
2022-06-17: British Ooze Under Your Shoes Anyone who makes it from Calais, whether legally or not, should be given refugee status because of …
2022-06-17: Assange Plea Here are the outlines for a face-saving plea for the USG in the Assange case: Guilty plea to a …
2022-06-14: Not Refugees Chilean-resident Haitians who have lived in Chile for five years are not refugees. Chile #haiti …
2022-06-14: Evergreening the Vig Evergreening: “To roll over unpaid amounts on loans, adding to the total amount …
2022-06-14: Save Money on Business Consulting No need to waste millions on McKinsey’s business consulting advice; the t-shirt says it all.
2022-06-13: LIV PGA Hypocrisy There is so little to write about when covering golf that the slightest variation from the game’s …
2022-06-12: Kids Need Guns and They Need Them Now “Imagine some would-be mass shooter bursting into a classroom only to be faced almost instantly by …
2022-06-12: Not Looking Good The number of Active Covid-19 cases in Bahrain continues to rise.
2022-06-11: On the Submission of Appellate Briefs One great way to have a brief pompously returned is to you with directions to “correct and …
2022-06-10: Kosovo and Ukraine Kosovo voted for independence and the will of the people was respected. Crimea voted for union with …
2022-06-10: Not Looking Good Active Covid-19 cases in Bahrain for the month of June, 2022. The numbers are going up, not down.
2022-06-05: Lawyers Futzing Do clients know they are paying seasoned lawyers to futz with document formatting? This is a direct …
2022-05-19: Infected Thought Reuters asks: “should a female elephant have some of the same legal rights as humans? In a push to …
2022-05-03: How Many Banks? According to the NY Times, at least 20 banks are putting up 1/3rd of the money Elon needs to buy …
2022-05-03: Roe v. Wade Leak First drafts don’t get typeset in 12 pt Century. This is a “draft” only in the …
2022-04-15: Twitter’s Largest Foreign Shareholder I have pointed out that KSA is the largest foreign shareholder of Twitter. I was corrected here and …
2022-04-09: Kyle Rittenhouse back in the News Kyle Rittenhouse criticized Biden (for criticizing him). Kyle, here’s some advice: some day you …
2022-03-28: A Second Act (Congressman Alcee Hastings died this week). Alcee Hastings, a civil rights leader in the 1970’s, …
2022-03-28: Don’t Turn off the Projector Only one type of speech is properly prohibited and that is speech which seeks to censor others. A …
2022-03-28: Da’esh and the Dakotas The report of Jeffrey Stahl Ferris’ suicide after a federal jury found him guilty of terror-related …
2022-03-28: Bad Luck for Me I spent a good deal of February researching and writing a brief volume titled, Saudi Arabia Privacy …
2022-03-28: Houthis Hit Refinery in Jeddah The Houthis have substantially improved the accuracy of their targeting and hit an Aramco refinery …
2022-03-25: The Interview with the Prime Minister Context: a few weeks ago, an influencer announced that he had obtained an exclusive interview with …
2022-03-10: Total Loss The Ukrainians have pledged to rebuild the An-225 six-engined superplanc transporter, the only one …
2022-02-28: HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR CV (AND GET IT READ) Facebook gets 15,000 applications for every announcement of a new job opening, You would need an …
2022-02-26: Not Likely They’ll Work Now It’s the best we can do.
2022-02-26: Colonel Sanders, International Man of Mystery Colonel Sanders, International Man of Mystery You may only know him as a Kentucky lawyer who came up …
2022-02-18: Maglev Trains Usually at this point I would rant about McKinsey’s advice to US companies to offshore and outsource …
2022-02-04: A Cautionary Fairy Tale A certain Big 4 accounting firm had a client who wanted a cat-catcher license in the Canal Zone, a …
2022-01-28: Blue Diamond Affair: KSA and Thailand Restore Ties The Thai Prime Minister, Prayut Chan o Cha, visited Riyadh on Tuesday, January 25th. Following his …
2022-01-28: Here We Go
2022-01-28: Freedom from Responsibility Freedom from responsibility. America’s freedoms have been boiled down to one issue: “do they make …
2022-01-26: More on Ivermectin The MSM has pushed Ivermectin as a horse dewormer, and anyone who attempts to contradict this dogma …
2022-01-25: Escaped Macaques Following a crash involving a dump truck, three macaques escaped from their cages while being …
2021-12-25: Ivermectin and Balance CNN, at least in this instance, has stopped calling Ivermectin a veterinary medicine and more …
2021-12-19: I Over the Pole The last time I flew on an A-380 was in business class returning to Dubai from Munich. Today I am …
2021-12-16: Treatments Two years ago, there was no treatment for the Sickness; in that context I predicted that the …
2021-12-02: South Sudan The separatist war that birthed South Sudan was particularly brutal. The northern part of the …
2021-11-27: I Don’t Care What You Say, There is No Such Thing as a Mainstream Media ‘Narrative’
2021-11-22: I Couldn’t Resist This Those who say that acquittal was a foregone conclusion? Nope. Not when the jury is out for four …
2021-11-20: Indeed (from the NY Post) “𝙽𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚢 𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚢 𝚖𝚎𝚍𝚒𝚊 𝚝𝚛𝚘𝚙𝚎𝚜 𝚙𝚛𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚍 𝚏𝚊𝚕𝚜𝚎: 𝙷𝚎 𝚍𝚒𝚍𝚗’𝚝 𝚋𝚛𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚐𝚞𝚗 𝚊𝚌𝚛𝚘𝚜𝚜 𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚝𝚎 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎𝚜; 𝚑𝚎 𝚑𝚊𝚍 …
2021-11-18: How to Fire an Employee It is important to recognize that no employee ever gets fired because of financial reasons. …
2021-11-03: Москва (The foul-mouthed, softball-playing, draft-dodging eighth graders from St. Priscilla’s are at it …
2021-10-11: School for Seniors Do you remember my scheme for spending my retirement in a college town? Many of you thought that I …
2021-10-09: Waiting for the Announcement How will we know the pandemic is over? Just as there was no formal announcement of the pandemic’s …
2021-10-06: Test Test after crash.
2021-09-18: Truth and Evidence It’s interesting (at least to me) how different systems or professions address the issue of truth. …
2021-09-15: Vietnam In a very real sense, I grew up with Vietnam. The war the Vietnamese call the “American War” was on …
2021-09-01: How an Apostrophe Almost Landed Me in Jail John Delorean I feel for those whose surnames include a ‘de, di, la’, an ‘al-’, …
2021-08-25: Equus “Is Ivermectin safe? When used for the current indications, at the currently approved doses, …
2021-08-22: Schooling for Seniors Update As it turns out, university tuition is tax-deductible for seniors who return to school to obtain …
2021-08-22: Federal Mask Mandate The US Department of Transportation has extended the federal mask mandate to January, 2022, …
2021-08-21: R.Kelly Trial: Where’s the Jury? The trial of R. Kelly on federal racketeering charges is being held on a semi-virtual basis: the …
2021-07-28: Mask or No Mask I’ll go out on a limb and say that much of the civil strife in the United States is between …
2021-07-19: Library Blues
2021-07-19: There really was a Pierre Menard. But he did not write the Quijote, contrary to Mr. Borges’ …
2021-07-17: Selling your Condo? Selling a condo isn’t easy these days. Real estate agents have to do due …
2021-07-10: Murder in West Cork If depicted accurately in the documentary Murder in West Cork, the evidence: changed stories …
2021-07-09: Explosive Flatulency as a Risk Factor for Covid-19 While often a matter of juvenile humor, it has become increasingly obvious to the peer-reviewed …
2021-07-07: Escalante Gave Up Gloria Escalante, a condo board member unit owner in the collapsed Champlain Towers South building, …
2021-07-06: Another Accurate Prediction Potential buyers (erroneously referred to by real estate agents as “clients”1) are now asking for …
2021-07-06: Bolivian Admiral Arrested A Bolivian admiral was arrested for his role in the military coup that overthrew Evo Morales. …
2021-07-04: When There’s Nothing to Report “In a small moment of hope, a cat was seen wandering a lower floor of the remaining flank of the …
2021-07-02: Lockdown Suspended The number of cases in Bahrain during the last month has dropped from a high of 28,798 active cases …
2021-07-01: 2021 Scorecard Storming of the US Capitol Trump Impeachment B737 Crash in Indonesia Outbreak of UK, So.African and …
2021-06-30: Schooling for Seniors I was sitting around with my roommates a few years ago and the subject of retirement came up, as did …
2021-06-30: Biden's Photo Op in Miami Beach Biden has nothing to do with the Champlain Towers South building collapse. Nothing. The feds have no …
2021-06-29: Hanging Spalls Florida’s vocabulary gifts: chad, as in “hanging chad” spall (v.) Any others? …
2021-06-28: Champlain Towers Analysis There’s a lot being written about the Champlain Towers collapse, but perhaps, as a former owner of a …
2021-06-22: Trapped? Trapped in debris? Earthquake? Avalanche? Collapsed building? Or just visiting an Associated Press …
2021-06-21: Criminal Justice System is Arbitrary and Capricious The US criminal justice system is arbitrary and capricious. Sammy got 5 years for 19 murders. How …
2021-06-06: Schooling for Seniors I was sitting around with my roommates a few years ago and the subject of retirement came up, as did …
2021-06-05: Why Don’t Jurors Get Ballots? It occurs to me that jurors are left to their own devices when it comes to voting ballots on an …
2021-06-05: Bahrain on UK’s Redlist With all the discussion about the removal of Portugal from the UK travel bubble, few saw that …
2021-06-04: Assange If the NY Times and the rest of the Western MSM got behind Assange, that would be the end of it. …
2021-05-28: The Worth Avenue Gang Jennifer’s downfall was her fine taste in clothes. Not satisfied with shopping at Target or …
2021-05-24: Vaccination Passport *Fauda* My vaccination is linked to my Bahraini resident’s permit number (CPR). Unfortunately, that permit …
2021-05-24: US Shows Belarus the Way Interesting how Western governments and the Media™ have attacked Belarus for diverting and grounding …
2021-05-22: Truth Behind the Icon The iconic photo of Che Guevara was cropped. #photography #Original #PhotographyRedefined
2021-05-22: Book Sales The average U.S. book is now selling less than 200 copies per year and less than 1,000 copies over …
2021-05-22: Zoom Issues Has anyone been on a Teams/Zoom call (not w/in CONUS) where at least someone had a technical issue?
2021-05-20: Da’esh and the Dakotas The report of Jeffrey Stahl Ferris’ suicide after a federal jury found him guilty of terror-related …
2021-05-06: Maybe It's not Within the President's Power to Fix
2021-05-06: Who Needs Vaccines?
2021-05-06: Land of the Free--with Censorship
2021-05-06: Deplatforming is Censorship
2021-04-30: Don’t Pull the Plug The risk that someone will yell “Fire!” is no reason to pull the plug on the projector.
2021-04-30: Girl, Taken Arlington Heights is a tranquil place. World events seldom disturb the peace of the Northwest …
2021-04-30: Invitation to a Book-burning In today’s topsy-turvy world the liberals are in favor of censorship and the conservatives are …
2021-04-14: Two Houthi Drones They’ve been throwing these at Riyadh lately.
2021-04-14: Don’t Pull the Plug The risk that someone will yell “Fire!” is no reason to pull the plug on the projector.
2021-03-28: 10 x 1/2 Saudi Arabia has roughly half the number of Active Covid-19 cases as Bahrain, but it has at least …
2021-03-27: Lined Up Karen National Union. Shan State Army. Now Kachin Independence Army. all lined up against the rebel …
2021-03-27: No Press, Please Perhaps they want to hide the efficient way the Suez Canal Authority is managing the crisis.
2021-03-27: Civil War in Myanmar The Shan State Army, along with the Karen National Union, lines up against the rebel Tatmadaw.
2021-03-26: The Dangers of Word for Word Translation
2021-03-26: The Satisfaction of Typing a Letter
2021-03-26: Trump on Trump
2021-03-26: Push Harder
2021-03-26: Coward Cops Back on the Beat
2021-03-26: Get Your CV Read
2021-03-26: Biden's Promises (From the Chicago Reader)
2021-03-26: Did you Cash your $2000 Check Yet?
2021-03-26: Censorship
2021-03-26: Biden Says
2021-03-24: Twitter’s Algos/AI Twitter has banned discussions of committing the ultimate harm to oneself, so the usual words for …
2021-03-23: Ivermectin Joins Hydroxy Ivermectin joins Hydroxychloroquine as a once highly-touted drug for the treatment of the Sickness …
2021-03-22: Cost Cutting Can Kill Colby Chandler, Kodak’s former CEO from 1983-1990 was proud of his cost cutting. He once took …
2021-03-22: Caveat from ODNI Assessment Here’s a caveat to a recent US ODNI (Office of the Director of National Intelligence) assessment: …
2021-03-18: Spanked by Twitter My account was suspended by Twitter for suggesting that, in view of the evidence of the Astra Zeneca …
2021-02-20: LLavero A young woman takes over her father’s drug business. By the time she points a gun at you, it’s too …
2021-02-07: President Biden's New Grandchild Hunter Biden is guaranteed to provide political comic relief for the next four years. Hunter …
2021-02-03: There are now three (four?) recognized dangerous Covid-19 variants: B.1.1.7 (United Kingdom) P1 …
2021-02-03: 2021 Scorecard 2021 Scorecard: Storming of the US Capitol Trump Impeachment B737 Crash in Indonesia Outbreak of …
2021-02-03: The Coup in Myanmar Imagine if the generals of the Tatmadaw were advising Trump. After arresting Myanmar legislators and …
2021-01-21: No More Conspiracy Theories No More Conspiracy Theories I’m sick and tired of QAnon, Pizzagate and other conspiracy theories. …
2021-01-20: Government Depository Libraries Government Depository Libraries Every major university’s library, public and private, is a …
2020-12-27: Vaccinations and Centenarians A vaccine is an immune system booster. It is not a cure or a treatment for disease. You have to have …
2020-12-26: Aaron Swartz: Blame MIT and USAO I wrote this four years ago, pointing out that the Swartz prosecution was political in nature. MIT …
2020-12-17: What do you call a Post-K Arbitration? An adjutorious arbitration; an archaic word but then again, in the law nothing is archaic. There has …
2020-11-28: Another Extrajudicial Killing You cannot applaud the assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh in Iran while condemning the …
2020-11-20: Happy Birthday Ronald Reagan left the White House when he was 77 years old after serving two terms. Joe Biden today …
2020-11-19: Sumerian Wind Demons “There’s no freedom of religion unless you are free to worship Sumerian wind demons”
2020-11-14: Francis Scott Key and John Marshall Francis Scott Key, the author of the Star Spangled Banner, was an attorney in Maryland. And a …
2020-11-07: Trump's Post-Presidency It looks like Biden is the victor, assuming no court intervention. Whatever happens between now and …
2020-11-07: The Post-Presidency
2020-11-02: British Judicial Understatement In describing an incident where feces were found in the marital bed that Amber Heard shared with …
2020-11-02: Who Will Win? We won’t know on election night and there’s the rub. The courts may give the election to …
2020-10-30: How I Got My Twitter Account Back Whose Fault? When I woke up one morning in June, there was a message from Twitter on my phone, …
2020-10-28: Character Evidence Evidence of good character is relevant in many types of legal proceedings. How long before the …
2020-10-28: Facebook Obituaries How long before an obituary records the number of Facebook “likes” a person received …
2020-10-28: Jerry Jeff Walker RIP When you’re down on your luck And you ain’t got a buck In London, you’re a goner They say you remain …
2020-10-26: Hovering Around 3100 For the past six days, the number of active Covid-19 cases in Bahrain has hovered around 3100.
2020-10-26: Sick Travelers Game the System Sick travelers game the system, putting everyone at risk, to be able to travel to Pakistan. This is …
2020-10-24: Embassies to the Middle East American cultural embassies to the Middle East: KFC McDonald’s Dunkin Donuts Krispy Creme …
2020-10-23: Travel Dreams Travel dreams.
2020-10-23: Bug the Fire Extinguishers When the CIA bugged the Ecuadorian embassy in London (howdey doodad?) they placed the bugs on the …
2020-10-23: What is Close Contact Close contact may not be close contact, and occasional contact may now be close contact. I guess.
2020-10-22: Howda hell diddy get dat? Howda hell diddy get dat?
2020-10-22: Irresistible Force Meets Immovable Object Irresistible Force: Blaming the Russians, Cubans, Chinese Immovable Object: Having to pay your …
2020-10-22: Bulgarian Chihuaha Smugglers Bulgarian chihuahua smugglers operating in Norway may mean the death of this innocent animal.
2020-10-22: Lining Up In An Orderly Fashion This is what the US has been fighting for in Afghanistan.
2020-10-20: Foreign Policy by Indictment
2020-10-20: Childhood My childhood was typical: summers in Rangoon. (From Austin Powers)
2020-10-19: Americans Can't Extend French Visas, But Chechen Murderers Get Ten Year Residency Americans can’t extend French Schengen visas, but Chechen murderers get ten year French …
2020-10-18: Sea-Launched Drones Bad news for the US Fifth Fleet: Iran now has sea-launched drones. The Fifth Fleet is headquartered …
2020-10-16: Proposed Scrivener Pleading Wizard One way to make Scrivener easier would be to add Wizards for common tasks, like compile. Back in the …
2020-10-09: Masked Confrontations Now Commonplace The masked and the maskless both have strong opinions. That is why fistfights break out over …
2020-10-07: Machine Gun Kelly Machine Gun Kelly was Italian, not Irish, as his name would otherwise suggest.
2020-10-06: Causeway Questions Clear Up The Causeway/border mystery has been resolved. The Causeway is open. But the reason why there has …
2020-10-05: How the Indian Education System Teaches Students to Game the System A devastating analysis of Jugaad, the Indian education system and gaming the system as a way of …
2020-10-05: Second Wave: Ireland Ireland’s Covid-19 task force is now recommending a full, Stage 5 lock-down as cases increase to …
2020-10-05: Second Wave: French Bars to Close The French will be forced to drink at home as the number of cases of the Sickness increases.
2020-10-05: Saudi Arabia and Vitamin D Vitamin D deficiency has been linked to susceptibility to the Sickness. Fully 83% of Saudi citizens …
2020-10-04: Juliette Binoche and E-Books
2020-10-04: Dealmaking in the Middle East It is common in the Middle East for a party to enter into a transaction only to find strangers …
2020-10-02: Looking Back at the Roger Stone Arrest I still believe that the (televised) Roger Stone arrest was the result of a deliberate leak by the …
2020-10-02: There is no "Kavanaugh Rule"
2020-10-01: Lawrence Ferling Lawrence Ferling is the birth name of the poet you may know as Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
2020-09-30: Trump-Biden Debate Analysis Congratulations, America; you got your spectacle. The problem is media coverage: treat the …
2020-09-28: Jesus was Illiterate Jesus was illiterate.
2020-09-27: Against All Odds
2020-09-27: Unrestrained Greed Lil Tay was a nine year-old Internet sensation who used foul language while flexing (that is, …
2020-09-26: Here's a Preview of the 2020 Vote https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_v._Gore
2020-09-24: Taiwan is Now Arrakis Taiwan is now Arrakis.
2020-09-24: One Step Forward, One Step Back
2020-09-24: A Grim Number
2020-09-22: The Grammar of Money The secret laws of money. Ignore them at your peril.
2020-09-22: Better than an Appeal I guess this is one way to show your disapproval of an 11th Circuit opinion requiring felons in …
2020-09-20: Kosher Salt in Bahrain Diplomatic relations with Israel were only established last week and look what’s already on …
2020-09-20: DiBlasio and Netanyahu DiBlasio and Netanyahu bob have the same problem when it comes to getting the haredim to obey social …
2020-09-20: About Latinx There are serious people on both sides of this argument. Grammatical gender is a feature of many …
2020-09-20: The Difference between Canada and the USA Which is why the US has more cases than any country in the world.
2020-09-19: Nothing Wrong I told you, there’s nothing wrong with my passport.
2020-09-19: Journalists Beware The US DoJ has argued in the Assange extradition case that US journalists can be convicted under the …
2020-09-19: Aztec Plague Advice (from David Bowles) The Aztecs treated their kings harshly for failing to follow plague protocols.
2020-09-19: Where's Walid? Prince Walid bin Talal, famous Saudi billionaire, the most well-known of all those incarcerated in …
2020-09-18: The Ultraviolet Solution Ultraviolet light kills Covid-19. Read more.
2020-09-18: Russian Vaccine Sputnik V, the name of the Russian Covid-19 vaccine, seems to be effective. Vaccinations have been …
2020-09-18: Opening Postponed Based on the more than doubling of new Covid-19 cases in the past two weeks, Bahrain announced today …
2020-09-16: The Long Game Would a Trump victory insure the nomination of a progressive by the Democrats in 2024? With another …
2020-09-16: Underground Bahrain Someone sent me this…
2020-09-16: Fake News It was 61° F in New York today; not 31°. The source was an Arab television station.
2020-09-15: 38/32 It’s 38° C in Bahrain; 32° F in NYC.
2020-09-11: Assange Extradition Unfortunately, you can’t trust the United States government when it comes to extradition. Just ask …
2020-09-11: Exorcism or Prosecution? The Nimitz Loses a Sailor USS Nimitz Loses Sailor, Time for an Exorcism A sailor assigned to the USS Nimitz, an American …
2020-09-07: The Gates Foundation and Journalism Subsidized news without or with little disclosure.
2020-09-06: What's the Difference between Indie Publishing and Vanity Publishing? The difference is sales to strangers. Vanity publishing means printing and ordering books. After …
2020-09-04: The Drug War and Napoleon No one anticipated that a wealthy Saudi who took up our invitation to throw the Russians out of …
2020-09-03: M. Duras Spoke Vietnamese Marguerite Duras, author, film director, Resistance fighter grew up speaking Vietnamese. Though she …
2020-09-02: Never Grill a Rubber Chicken Always sound advice.
2020-09-02: You Should be Using It For typesetting.
2020-09-02: Sturgis v. Peru in the CoronaBowl (From David Stockman) “Finally, there’s this. When over 460,000 motorcyclists descended upon …
2020-09-02: Low Level Persistent Spread Low-Level but Persistent Spread Like Cuba, Bahrain is an island. Like Cuba, Bahrain has closed off …
2020-09-02: The First Electrocution But the blood was continuing to ooze from Kemmler’s small finger wound. His heart still had to be …
2020-08-29: End of Story Translation End of story = Capítulo cerrado. Spanish, obviously.
2020-08-25: New Orleans A beignet is just a small ojaldra. Discuss.
2020-08-24: On an Island I’m on an island. The only land border was closed on March 6. The airport closed then as well. …
2020-08-21: Steve Bannon Arrest The arrest was made by US Postal Inspectors, one of the most professional of all federal law …
2020-08-20: Death in Laos The Laotian hazmat squad shows up to take away the coffin carrying the infected body.
2020-08-20: Average Age of Covid-19 Deaths Average age of Covid-19 death is 82 years.
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2020-08-15: Pressure on Saudi Arabia? The WSJ claims that the establishment of diplomatic relations between the UAE and Saudi Arabia puts …
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2020-08-13: Who's Responsible for the Beirut Port Fire? When the M/V Rhosus sailed into Lebanese waters in 2013 to pick up new cargo, the owners already had …
2020-08-11: I Don’t Care I don’t care if the vaccine has alien DNA in it or if it’s …
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2020-08-08: Biden's Election Means Trouble for Saudi Arabia More here.
2020-08-08: Anything is Possible at Zombo.com The unattainable is unknown at zombo.com. Worth a visit.
2020-08-08: Saudi Arabia's Secret Payment to Spanish King A curious payment: a contractor seeking a public works contract might be tempted to pay a bribe. …
2020-08-07: Game at 50, by W. Nanner Flint Dating for the over 50’s:Game at 50.
2020-08-07: De-Platforming is Censorship De-Platforming is censorship.
2020-08-07: Leveling the Playing Field Would Be Nice Federal criminal defense attorneys must pay for PACER access out of their own pockets (in theory, …
2020-08-07: Huawei, China, Canada But not smooth enough to get out of a diplomatic crisis with China. #mengwanzhou #fourdeathsentences …
2020-08-06: The ceviche was a success. This time I used a Panamanian recipe. I soaked the fish in brine for …
2020-08-05: This is the Problem
2020-08-05: My Extensive July Travels A whole two kilometers.
2020-08-05: Mid-Year Recap 2020 Mid-Year Recap It’s been a helluva year. To briefly recap: Impeachment and trial of American …
2020-08-05: How to File a Grievance or Respond to an HR Complaint How to Write an Employee Complaint Upon getting that dreaded letter from HR (remember: HR is not …
2020-08-05: Saudi Arabia Employee Handbook Thinking of a job in Saudi Arabia?
2020-08-05: It Could be Worse Looks like the pandemic will be with us for a while yet longer.
2020-08-05: Dementia is a Terrible Disease How can the Democrats put forward a 78 year-old with dementia?
2020-08-04: Nine Life Hacks You Won't Find Anywhere Else ###Use Pennies to Identify Recurring Monthly Payments Let’s say you owe a creditor $50 per …
2020-08-04: That’s depressing. Go back to mu7ami.com
2020-08-03: Pepys on Pubs in the Pandemic Sage advice.
2020-08-03: It's Monday But the post office in Adliya was closed. Strange.
2020-08-02: Document Post Test Here’s a document. Here is a link to the document: mu7ami.micro.blog/uploads/2…
2020-08-02: This is What "Defund the Police" Means This is basically the idea.
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2020-08-02: Was It A Training Exercise? The killing of Floyd George has drawn an avalanche of commentary due to the subsequent and …
2020-08-01: JT Leroy, Ted Berrigan, Alice Notley, Eileen Myles, T Kira Madden Maybe it was because it was a different time I am trying to understand the outrage behind the JT …
2020-08-01: Game at 50 by W. Nanner Flint. The dating manual for the over-50’s.
2020-08-01: ## Death of a Lawyer: Perry Mason 2020, S01 Ep 4 Death of a Lawyer: Perry Mason 2020, S01 Ep 4 Earle Stanley Gardner was an American lawyer, novelist …
2020-08-01: Bahrain Active Cases Down to Mid-May Levels Bahrain’s doing pretty well. 5374 active cases at …
2020-07-31: Anyone can get tested. Go back to mu7ami.com
2020-07-31: Because People Won’t Follow Rules The authorities in Milan were brutal. Go back to mu7ami.com
2020-07-31: When You Stare into the Abyss Go back to mu7ami.com
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2020-07-31: The Only Safe Place
2020-07-31: Hydroxychloroquine remains a subject of controversy. So far, we have been failed by the …
2020-07-31: The Alley American Alley, Juffair, Bahrain