My New Esperanto Blog
I posted in June that I had begun learning the constructed language Esperanto, supposedly the easiest language in the world to learn. I’ve been studying it casually since, and, much to my surprise, […]
I posted in June that I had begun learning the constructed language Esperanto, supposedly the easiest language in the world to learn. I’ve been studying it casually since, and, much to my surprise, […]
Saluton! Last week I decided to start learning Esperanto, an artificial language created in 1887 by L.L. Zamenhof, a Polish Jewish doctor who invented it as a completely regular, easy-to-learn lingua franca for the […]
I just found a cool chart that shows the extreme disparity in the land size of countries. This one is just for land area; population would show even greater differences. […]
The worst of the crisis in the Eurozone is now widely considered to be over and the economy recovering, with the situation in Greece having moved away from the state […]
Consumerism is certainly not an American invention, but the modern form of consumerism with its lust for the newest thing and its wasteful ephemeral fads has its origins in the […]
The United States and France are currently debating the possibility of a Franco-American intervention in the Syrian civil war, after the alleged use of internationally banned chemical weapons by Bashar […]
Wind power is the future of energy. It is the most economical, cost-effective, efficient, ecologically friendly power source currently available. For human kind to live sustainably on Earth, we must […]
This week, the UN General Assembly voted to put French Polynesia, a collectivité of France in the Pacific Ocean known for its largest island, Tahiti, back on the UN list […]
The European Union, in its current form, has a fundamental problem. This is that it takes sovereignty from the people without the people’s direct consent. Let’s look at it this way. […]
In March I went on vacation to the French overseas region of Guadeloupe, in the Caribbean. While there, I began thinking about Overseas France, and its uniqueness in the world. […]
Just a quick link to an interesting video from the Guardian News: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/video/2012/sep/20/morocco-renewable-energy-future-video Apparently Morocco is now a leading country in renewable energy planning. Not something I would have expected, […]
Yet another African country has been thrown into chaos by rebels, this time the Central African Republic. The small country’s longtime ally France has elected not to provide military support […]
This past Friday, France finally decided to take charge and intervene to stop the take over of Mali by radical jihadist militants who have controlled the north of the country […]
Normally, I am vehemently against the military intervention of powerful nations in the affairs of weaker nations. However, sometimes human rights abuses and oppression get so bad that intervention will cause less damage […]
The subject that has been occupying the world’s attention of late is, of course, the anti-American protests that have racked the Muslim world. The protests were sparked by a despicable […]