Cross Currents

A cross cultural blog
September 12, 2012 01:07PM
“Swedish pancakes with jam in the afternoons and sneaking candy to us when my mother wasn't looking. You captured my grandmother, too. I was named afte…”
About: Across Two Continents
September 12, 2012 06:48AM
“It's not just science, it's the idea that you need to start a theory by examining the facts. Republican policy starts and ends with theories based on…”
About: The Case for a Scientific Nation: Part 2
September 12, 2012 02:47AM
“A lot of personality shows on faces. I've noticed that there are many attractive people who weren't blessed with physical beauty, but their personality…”
About: Beauty is More Than Skin Deep: Why Don't I Believe That?
September 11, 2012 02:37AM
“In Haiti, barely 50% of the population has access to improved water supplies and only 25% of the rural population. No Haitian city has a functioning se…”
About: Haiti: the New Greece
September 10, 2012 10:25AM
“Oh and the "Troika"? They want to make a 48 hour week legal, allowing Greeks who want to earn overtime able to do it. They are not mandating…”
About: Haiti: the New Greece
September 10, 2012 07:37AM
“The point of an industrial zone in Haiti tends to be the provision of a number of things businesses need, but can't commonly find: decent roads to the…”
About: Haiti: the New Greece
September 07, 2012 01:23PM
“It was hard at the time, but let's face it, in the late 60s or early 70s no one would have believed that we'd have a black president in our life time.…”
About: Why I No Longer Vote Republican
September 07, 2012 12:38AM
“Actually, in Maine, the local chambers of commerce are for King and the national for Summers. Some of the local Chambers of Commerce have severed their…”
About: REVEALED:The Republican Plan for Victory
September 07, 2012 12:38AM
“Actually, in Maine, the local chambers of commerce are for King and the national for Summers. Some of the local Chambers of Commerce have severed their…”
About: REVEALED:The Republican Plan for Victory
September 06, 2012 12:30AM
“I didn't mean that all people fail at investing, just that some do. I hope you don't mean to claim that the US is completely free of clueless idiots, r…”
About: Engaged, Compassionate Leadership: Why I Am Now For Mitt
September 06, 2012 12:16AM
“Just think, we've had first ladies like Hillary Clinton who had brains, education and experience and clearly were an asset to their husband's policy de…”
About: Michelle...Our Belle
September 04, 2012 01:11AM
“@Chri Of course most people can do better investing their social security themselves. But the point of SS is to provide a safety net ensuring that all p…”
About: Engaged, Compassionate Leadership: Why I Am Now For Mitt
September 03, 2012 12:25PM
“My understanding is at the time of Obama's birth, an American parent of a foreign-born child had to be 21 at the time of the child's birth. Stanley Ann…”
About: Who Is An American
September 02, 2012 03:25PM
“Romney now has Chertoff advising him. You know, Michael Chertoff who handled Katrina so very well.”
About: Engaged, Compassionate Leadership: Why I Am Now For Mitt
September 02, 2012 03:22PM
“Hate to break it to you, but Bush destroyed America's reputation with the world and given the number of Bush retreads advising Romney on foreign policy…”
About: DNC: Heading for a Fall?
August 31, 2012 09:05AM
“J'ais penser que Sarah Palin etais l'enfant du poster d'avortement parce que elle est une femme mariee et responsable, mais elle a eu une enceintement…”
About: Abortion debate: En français, s'il vous plaît
August 31, 2012 08:56AM
“You need a character arc. It can be political, losing or gaining faith, or even just maturity. Then you need to frame your pieces within this arc. Y…”
About: Tragic Heroine
August 31, 2012 07:08AM
“Not only are your despicable comments a perfect example of the war on women, but your illustrate my other problem with the GOP --- cluelessness. As for…”
About: RNC Spooks Liberal OS Regulars
August 30, 2012 04:18PM
“Maybe he doesn't lie. Maybe he's just like Bush, doesn't bother to figure out the facts and uses his best guess. Like with Rumsfeld's 'they hate our fr…”
About: Ryan, Republicans, and Strategic Lying
August 30, 2012 06:10AM
“Oh, come on, she told you. Mitt will try hard and succeed. We (and probably she and he) don't have the foggiest idea of what he's going to try to achie…”
About: Excuse Me Ann, But Where's the Beef?
August 30, 2012 01:31AM
“@ Skypixie Never proof read. Writing is a creative endeavor and writers are above such mundane details.”
About: Book Excerpt and Bad Writing Tips Updated Oct 20 2012
August 30, 2012 01:26AM
“Be sure to carefully, thoughtfully include plenty of adverbs and enlightening and colorful adjectives, while not deliberately skimping on the exciting…”
About: Book Excerpt and Bad Writing Tips Updated Oct 20 2012
August 30, 2012 01:05AM
“I lived in a mixed neighborhood once. The Boston Irish were quiet and minded their own business (ie they didn't say hello unless you'd lived in the ne…”
About: My Secret Republican Side
August 28, 2012 01:16AM
“I think the problem is that the GOP isn't mostly sensible moderates overtaken by the fringe, but a collection of different ideologies, as easily manife…”
About: Republicans Set to Repeat 1964 Disaster?
August 24, 2012 10:58AM
“The Republicans are masters of faux outrage, but at some point, they just sound like cry babies.”
About: What's Race Baiting and What's Not
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