“Does the analysis I’ve just provided promote this rape culture? This is an old saw, which we’ve encountered before. An analysis of pedophilia promotes it. An analysis of terrorism justifies it. And so on. The technical name for people who think this is ‘dumb fucks’. I used to try to disabuse dumb fucks of their …
To many in North America, driving 600 km in a day is not a big deal. Well, it’s still a fair distance, but not something many of us would say “No” to, because of the distance. I know that I used to regularly drive this many km and even more in a day, and while …
We took a long road trip yesterday – almost 600 km from our “base” near Atalanti into the Pelion region of Greece, and back. More on that along with photos shortly (perhaps a post for each of the places we visited). But first, one of the observations that visitors to Greece comment on is the …
Sometimes Google translate does not get things right at all. When I tried to translate the Greek word “Ταξιάρχε” with Google Translate, Google told me it meant “Taxi Drivers.” In fact, the term – Taxiarches – in English/Latin letters refers in Greek Orthodoxy to one or both of the archangels – Michael and/or Gabriel. In …
Saints Taxiarches (Άγιοι Ταξιάρχε) Church, Exarchos, Greece Read More »
A random photo when the tripod was not handy… a couple of nights ago, from the balcony.
Getting packages to Exarchos, Greece is not the easiest thing in the world…. recently, I had occasion to order some photographic lens filters from the United Kingdom. A seller on Ebay had two filters that I wanted for my Nikon D7000 camera, while another seller in Poland had a battery charger for the same camera, …
Check out the graph. Recall at the beginning of the month, all the alarmists were literally “screaming” that the “arctic was on fire” and there were predictions that this year, we’d see a record low Arctic sea ice extent for the satellite era. Actually, this is possibly not true – if you go to the …
The Progressive mainstream media is at it again, with huge exaggerations and utterly fake news. When it comes to environmental issues, or subjects like climate change, the mainstream media members, who seem to be mostly from a politically “progressive” point of view, are regularly guilty of fake reporting, or exaggeration. Many of them are just …
Fake News From “Main Stream” Media On Amazon Fires Read More »
For the second year in a row, I’m spending some time in the small Greek village of Exarchos, which geographically is in Central Greece, and located within the prefecture of “Fthiotida,” (try pronouncing that – our English language never puts an “F” sound directly in front of “TH” so it is not a natural thing …
Since arriving in Greece back in June, Beans hasn’t done a whole lot of traveling but finally, we have around a week outside of Nea Ionia, Athens planned. August is generally the month Greeks take vacation time, and August 15th is a big holiday known as “Feast of the Dormition of the Theotokos.” We had …