http://www.sorocabana.net/blogs/ en-us 2009-01-27T22:38:10-05:00 http://www.sorocabana.net/archives/2009/01/total_man_v10.html Much like Don Quixote and his monomania with knights and chivalry novels, my non-fiction "monomania" is with the Yijing (or "I Ching," as popularized by the Wilhelm/Baynes translation and the Wade-Giles transliteration of Chinese). I read extensively on the... Commentary Sparhawk 2009-01-27T22:38:10-05:00 http://www.sorocabana.net/archives/2009/01/parisology_and.html I admit it, it is my fault. The haiku-like nature of Twitter lends itself to the dangers of open interpretation by others. Furthermore, the two-way nature of the medium, practically assures the immediate feedback of those waiting in the... Commentary Sparhawk 2009-01-17T14:11:50-05:00 http://www.sorocabana.net/archives/2008/09/nobody_takes_my.html Commentary Sparhawk 2008-09-11T11:49:08-05:00 http://www.sorocabana.net/archives/2008/09/the_palinmccain.html Has anybody noticed how Palin is the one that talks for 20 minutes, get's the crowd into a frenzy, and then passes the mic to McCain, he repeats his mantras like an obsessed for 5 minutes and then is over?... Commentary Sparhawk 2008-09-10T11:51:38-05:00 http://www.sorocabana.net/archives/2008/09/lou_dobbs_the_i.html This is hilarious. Lou Dobbs paints himself "independent" only because not even the most rabid, foaming-at-the-mouth conservatives have a place for him. He's so far to the Right that he qualifies as "infra-" or "ultra-" something, yet to be defined... Commentary Sparhawk 2008-09-08T18:13:38-05:00 http://www.sorocabana.net/archives/2008/09/word_magic_and.html While feeding my Yijing OCD of reading all I can get my hands on related to it, I found the following passage in Richard Smith's latest book, "Fathoming the Cosmos and ordering the world": A certain "word magic" gave... Commentary Sparhawk 2008-09-07T00:02:47-05:00 http://www.sorocabana.net/archives/2008/08/sarah_palin_tak.html ...book of propriety... Of course, she didn't inhale either...It reminds me of the tale of the "confirmed straight man;" you know, the one that tried sex with another man and confirmed that he wasn't gay because he didn't like it...Sarah... Sparhawk 2008-08-29T12:14:09-05:00 http://www.sorocabana.net/archives/2008/08/soledad_obrians.html I posted the comment below in Jack Cafferty's blog. I'll post it here, just in case the "moderation" works against me...Cafferty File: Tell Jack how you really feel Blog Archive - What can Obama say to get your vote? -... Sparhawk 2008-08-28T14:26:15-05:00 http://www.sorocabana.net/archives/2008/08/the_other_piece.html IndianExpress.com :: As Russia shows Georgia its iron hand, a look at the love-hate relationship it shares with Soviet Union’s former ‘republics’ since USSR’s dissolution in 1991:As Russia shows Georgia its iron hand, a look at the love-hate relationship it... Sparhawk 2008-08-13T12:17:28-05:00 http://www.sorocabana.net/archives/2008/08/well_duh.html One only has to hear McCain talk yesterday...Asia Times Online :: Central Asian News and current affairs, Russia, Afghanistan, UzbekistanWhat is playing out in the Caucasus is being reported in the United States media in an alarmingly misleading light, making... Sparhawk 2008-08-12T09:49:29-05:00 http://www.sorocabana.net/archives/2008/08/master_chess_pl.html It is hard to fathom such an amount of stupidity on the part of a supposedly "Western leader" like Saakashvili. What was he thinking? There are very few random things that happen in geopolitics. This was a (mis)calculated move by... Commentary Sparhawk 2008-08-11T16:21:03-05:00 http://www.sorocabana.net/archives/2008/08/it_makes_me_won.html When is the territorial China going to shrink. I mean, you can't have it both ways. Be a capitalist powerhouse and keep a totalitarian regime (cough! cough!, yes, I know, I'm pointing at the mirror). I'm not saying that they... Commentary Sparhawk 2008-08-04T16:09:21-05:00 http://www.sorocabana.net/archives/2008/03/wtf_v35.html This is like the third or four piece of news from UPI, in the past couple of weeks, where they quote information obtained from Debka. I mean, I've been reading the site since they opened the joint and although they... Commentary Sparhawk 2008-03-04T11:18:57-05:00 http://www.sorocabana.net/archives/2007/07/hows_this_for_d.html The linked article is also reporting U. S. Defence Secretary Robert M. Gates was forced to cancel a trip to South America due to the emergency situation throughout West Asia (Middle East). It is an alarming situation to Washington and... Commentary Sparhawk 2007-07-09T18:06:45-05:00 http://www.sorocabana.net/archives/2007/05/terence_mckenna.html I Ching Sparhawk 2007-05-14T15:06:03-05:00