Archive for the 'tropics' Category

BUSH SIGNS QUILTING MUSEUM INTO BEING

May 10th, 2008

oh, yeah, and federalizes immigration and labor in the CNMI, and gives the CNMI a nonvoting delegate thus undoing all of Jack Abramoff’s hard, expensive, quite possibly illegal work - - and designates the National Museum of Wildlife Art of the United States!!
S. 2739 is some big bill


no money in the CNMI Retirement Fund

December 11th, 2007

this is kind of a big deal - and yet it gets no more attention in the paper than the story about some dude winning a blackjack tournament (congratulations Mr. Shimada!)

also: grow, eat your greens
also also: the letters to the editor in the Saipan newspapers are really quite impressively nonsensical and digressive and personal […]


India’s getting bigger, paradise doesn’t exist

December 1st, 2007

says Vault
and another thing, since I like the sound of this play, which seems to share a theme with my novel, by which I mean both  have as themes this idea that paradise doesn’t exist - except my novel doesn’t have Aristophanes in it, and I suspect that this play is lacking in good old-fashioned […]


tropical lawyering

November 13th, 2007

it’s getting to be winter here, and there’s a lawyer job available in Palau