Can’t get enough of this super funky music video

That’s the journey from Dubai to San Francisco. Not ideal but it’s good to be home. I’ve been remiss by not posting more from Dubai but I’ve got myself into one of those workin too much scenarios which has left little energy for blogging. I’ve also had the strange situation of having […]

Your Friday musical treat…

Some choice videos for your hump day viewing pleasure.

The most popular video by far on my (meager) YouTube channel is a music video for Rage Against the Machine’s song No Shelter (33,000 plus views). Needless to say, I highly recommend it. For those who do not know much or anything about Rage, they are a polarizing ultra-political ultra-controversial rock band.

I thought more about what I wrote yesterday, and I realized that for many such a blanket assertion would require more convincing. It isn’t that I think aid can or necessarily should stop per se, but it should at least be cleansed of its colonial doublespeak.

I am not trying to equate aid to impoverished nations to the blatant criminality of Halliburton/Blackwateresque profiteering, but this heartening story from Malawi certainly revives some tough questions raised previously here (and throughout other insightful posts) by Jesse