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In Praise of Furnished Apartments

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

We’ve just moved into our fourth furnished apartment. The other three were in Europe and Africa (where it’s par for the course, as far as I can figure)–this is our first in Canada. I can’t sing the praises of furnished apartments enough–they make so much sense:

They reduce waste, because people (especially young people) aren’t buying […]

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Rethinking Poverty (and Getting Nowhere)

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

Living abroad teaches you a lot. It also teaches you how little you know, and forces you to re-examine long-held assumptions.
One of these assumptions is about poverty. My general assumption about poverty used to go like this:
Most people in the West are rich. Most people in the developing world are the suffering poor.

Broadly speaking, I […]

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Cognitive Dissonance in Blondie

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

From the Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (heh) department: what’s wrong with this comic (click for larger size)?

Dagwood’s dining companion (nice homo-erotic subtext, by the way) has a cell phone. That just seems so weird. Dagwood’s still wearing the same black suit and bowtie that he’s been wearing since 1930, and Blondie’s still keeping house, yet the […]

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Additional items in this category:
Rethinking the Word “Shop”
The Foreignness Index: A Tool For Figuring Out Where You Want to Live
Rangers: The Best Restaurant, Bar (and Pizza) on Gozo
Things I’ll Miss About Malta
A Day of Power Outages
A Shooting in Our Tiny Maltese Village
A Christmas Card to Malta via Guyana

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