Maybe it’s not just a funny joke that the Irish were once seen as subhuman. Maybe we’re all better off including new people just because it’s the right thing to do.
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Tag: Bangladesh
On the Fragility of Our Connections
On the nature & fragility of friendship, of love & its connections & how people so often change the connections they have always known.
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Happy Birthday to the Rock of My Life
Happy birthday to my mother!! Well, yinz got a story about my father yesterday. Here’s one about the rock of our family, my mother:
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Happy Father’s Day to the OG Revolutionary in My Life
I’ve been asking myself why I started going to BLM protests this time around. Mostly, #enoughisenough. But also, let me tell you a story
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Kick Rocks, Jamaat
Welcome news from Bangladesh via the Economist: A High Court in Bangladesh ruled that the country’s biggest Islamist party, the Jamaat-e-Islami, is unfit to
Continue readingConnections to the Motherland, Connections to Where People Live
Last weekend, I had Primanti’s iftar with an old friend who was in town. He asked me if/how connected I feel to the motherland.
Continue readingEmpire of Noise
A comment from Rod Dreher’s TAC blog: When we live in the natural (much time outdoors) type of environment, our senses are constantly being
Continue readingParallels in International Response between the Ongoing Syrian Uprising and the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War
Or… I hope Richard Nixon is Rotting in Hell The Arab Spring. A series of demonstrations, protests and wars that has rocked the autocratic
Continue readingThe (Silent) Road
This afternoon and evening, Pittsburgh experienced an extended blackout due to high winds and rains. (I say extended blackout in the western sense because
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Communities of the Third Culture
In a largely nuclear, de-centralized world, how do we replicate such a natural cultural community. Do we even want such a community?
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