Syria is Heating Up

by | Nov 20, 2011 | Current Affairs, Foreign Affairs

By HOLMES This past Wednesday, November 16, the rebellion in Syria escalated significantly.* A team of rebel commandos lead by, and possibly completely manned by, deserters from the Syrian military attacked an important intelligence center that Syria’s secret...

Syria’s Assad has Crossed the Rubicon

by | Nov 6, 2011 | Current Affairs

By Jay Holmes On January 27 of this year, protests began in Syria against Syrian dictator Bashar Assad. Bashar (a.k.a. Assad 2.0) quickly attempted to crush the protests before they could gain any momentum. He was unable to declare a state of emergency because Syria...

Good Riddance to Qaddafi

by | Oct 23, 2011 | Current Affairs, Special Edition Libya

By Jay Holmes On October 20, 2011, the Libyan National Transition Council reported that Libya ended forty-two years of suffering under the heartless, egomaniacal Moammar Qaddafi. The world was treated to a brief video showing a wounded, captured Qaddafi, pleading for...

It Made Us Laugh

by | Oct 16, 2011 | Amusing Ourselves and Hopefully You

Holmes blew through town last night, just in time to save me from this man-eating mountain lion.  What a great friend! We were up late laughing so I persuaded him to slack off for the day. Instead of his matchless history lessons or sarcastic humor, I’m posting...