TGIF. And we’re watching Sleepers (Dustin Hoffman, Brad Pitt, Robert De Niro, Kevin Bacon, Minnie Driver). Directed by Barry Levinson, the 1996 movie is based on the book of the same name by Lorenzo Carcaterra. Given the star-cast, we have high expectations from the movie. It seems like a revenge tale with related elements like […]
In an age of airplanes, motor cars and asinine ‘reality’ shows, it seems there are few challenging frontiers left for man to conquer any more. So it is with delight we’re reading Men of Salt: Crossing the Sahara on the Caravan of White Gold by Michael Benanav. The 220-page book is a first person account […]
Man can live without Gold, but not without salt. – Attributed to 5th century AD Roman senator Cassiodorus (cited in Men of Salt by Michael Benanav P.xiv, a book we are reading)
U.S. Unemployment Rate hits 8.9% U.S. Unemployment Increases to 13.7 Million U.S. Unemployment – Highest in 26 Years U.S. Jobs Lost Since December 2007 – 5.7 Million All ye sophomoric American idiots, so you think outsourcing to the Indian coolies means only a bunch of programmers or a 22-year-old starving college dropout pretending to be […]