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.
In my opinion, virtually no person, or persons, who legislate or pass regulations ever stop to ask themselves whether the results of their actions are …
Foreign aid and family planning is at the center of the world’s number one problem. That problem is not climate change, or nuclear war, but …
The current demonstrations and riots in many U.S. cities against the killing of a unarmed black man by an arresting police officer, who knelt on …
