I created the “Connecting the Dots” blog site to investigate and interpret a global range of topics from an international, and personally quirky, perspective.
My topics in “Connecting the Dots” include politics, the environment, fun issues, social issues and anything else that catches my attention. I hope you enjoy them, and will join me through your comments.
I inaugurated the “GOLDEN FLEECE AWARD” some time ago, which rewards the most stupid, inept, criminal and just plain dumb activities of public officials and others, everywhere. I have now added another award, the “GOLDEN EAGLE AWARD”, which celebrates remarkably positive activities of public officials and others. I would appreciate your help in identifying great examples of both.
Scientists have recently confirmed the existence of a Moon cave, something they have long suspected was there, but had been unable to prove until now. …
These days, reality is slowly undermining the political power of the mythological American Cowboy image. In the years after World War II, that image helped …
I saw this list in a recent article and thought it would be fun to pass it on to my readers. You may not agree …
I found this story about Hedy Lamarr fascinating, mainly because it had never occurred to me that she was a brilliant inventor as well as …
The feeding frenzy of the media in the short time since Joe Biden’s debacle in the first presidential debate, only reinforces the point I have …
A roundabout under the Atlantic Ocean sounds a little unlikely, to put it mildly, but it’s a reality in the Faroe Islands, of all places. …
The Great Green Wall is a project of eleven countries in the Sahel-Sahara region: Thye are Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan, Chad, Niger, Nigeria, Mali, Burkina Faso, …
Words of wisdom sometime come from unexpected sources. The more succinct they are, the more impact they have but, equally, the harder they are to …
We don’t normally think about the legacy of World War II in terms of the ordinance that it left behind, that still exists. For example, …
This piece, written by Geoffrey Goldberg, the Editor of the Atlantic magazine, focuses on Donald Trump’s sanity and his deteriorating ability to make sense, avoid …
