Daniel W.

Dolly Llama. Does that make me a bad person?

Only if you are listening to music by Loose Windscreen. (my bad).

I remember after the Tiananmen Square massacre (1989) I blurted out that I would boycott Chinese goods as a protest. I immediately corrected myself for being stupid as this would only harm individuals and not the Communist Party. I will still travel to the US for Thanksgiving this year. I will spend time in both Georgia and Florida which seem to…[Read more]

I was recently asked over lunch at work, by a male, in the company of 2 other men and 4 women as to what behavioural changes I might consider making towards women in light of the #MeToo movement. I replied with an emphatic “None”. This was met with blank stares by the women and some “tut tutting” by him and nods of disapproval by the men.

I…[Read more]

Ask him what the point of a vacation is if you’re just going to go home afterwards 🙂

It’s funny, in the West over the years, we see Muslims as more violent, and Hindus as more peaceful, but this is a fallacy.  I spent some time in Fiji, for example, where the Hindus are aggressive and the Muslims gentle.  I had always thought that Buddhists were extremely peaceful, and then I learned of the Buddhist aggression in Myanmar.  It seem…[Read more]

Don’t look at Mueller, look over here!! Over 400,000 Syrians have been killed over the last 7 years. Over 5 million have fled the country and over 6 million are internally displaced. Over 1000 killed and about 5000 injured in Eastern Ghouta by the Syrian government in the last 6 weeks. Nothing done. Now about 50 are killed by gas and the world i…[Read more]

@ Daniel W.

Very well put!

I retire in two and half years and every day I roll into work I tell someone, anyone, how grateful I am that “I still have this gig”. I have ton’s of gratitude today. I hold no grudges against anyone because I learned to forgive and have asked for it too. I’m never happier as when I can be of use to someone. Especially…[Read more]

If you don’t know what schadenfreude is, I do, so there…Nah-Nah-n-Nah-Nah.

Update. So, @danielw I’ve downloaded Headspace and done Day 1 of the session. I didn’t know it was going to be an English accented voice directing me – living here in the states, I miss English accents and it made it so much easier for me to want to listen.  And I actually achieved following the directions and messing with my concentration – much…[Read more]

How funny, Daniel, I also subscribe to the Washington Post, New York Times and the local vtdigger.

Daniel W. wrote:

@davis, nicely thought out and composed response. Im very liberal, I think, and fearful about the current US and world political paradigm shifts. But I cant handle the politically correct and academic left in the US. I don’t know where that leaves me.

I call that being liberal but not to the point of stupidity.

Sounds scary. I dont see anything wrong with sitting back and seeing where you are in life.

Daniel can we coin the term ‘Information Barons‘ ?

A ham sandwich would be better than Donald Trump. Can’t we raise the bar a bit more?

@ Robert – true, she does push a lot of woo. As a friend suggested, Dr. Oz for Surgeon General, anyone? I doubt they’ll be using the smooching Harvey pic on any campaign lit.