Read more
Movie Review: The Expendables
By Steve on September 2, 2010
Got to go see The Expendables this week. Even before I saw it here in Hong Kong, the box office success in U.S. seemed to indicate I wasn’t the first Reagan America weaned, over 40…
Read more
Conviction & Compassion: or What to do with my Democrat, Muslim, and Gay friends
By Steve on August 28, 2010
I recently had dinner with a new friend here in Hong Kong. We had been talking about different cuisines and I had been bemoaning the fact that my favorite Lebanese restaurant had closed. When I…
Read more
Hong Kong Tragedy in the Philippines
By Steve on August 26, 2010
On Monday evening 21 Hong Kong tourists were taken hostage in the Philippines by a disgruntled former policeman hoping to get his job back. An 11 hour standoff with a Filipino SWAT team left 8…
Read more
Curries, Fried Rice, and Cheeseburgers
By Steve on August 20, 2010
After being back in Hong Kong now for 8 months I can say, “I love it!” And if you ask why, I’ll probably say, “something to do with Curry, Fried Rice, and Cheeseburgers!” What I…
Read more
Robert Mugabe in Hong Kong
By Steve on August 16, 2010
There are few places left in the world that Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe is still welcome…and those places that still welcome him tend to not be places one would want to visit…except Hong Kong. On…
Read more
Living on Park Island
By Steve on August 13, 2010
When Tammy and I moved back to Hong Kong last Christmas we had a decision to make…Where to live? We had lived for a number of years in different places around the territory from the…
Read more
Hong Kong’s Paris Hilton
By Steve on August 12, 2010
The news in Hong Kong the last few days has been fun to watch. The niece of a prominent judge named Amina Mariam Bokhary was pulled over by the police for drunk driving and during…
Read more
Public Health Care: My Experience
By Steve on June 21, 2010
So much has been debated recently on the health care issue in America especially when it involves the public option. Because of this I want to share with you my recent encounter with “the public…
Read more
“Good Friday” still good in Iowa
By Steve on March 31, 2010
Here’s what one Iowa town thought was a great political idea. Let’s suddenly change the name of a 2000 year old holiday and one that’s been celebrated in the town since practically its founding because…
Read more
American Superpower X
By Steve on February 20, 2010
The American aircraft carrier USS Nimitz steamed into Hong Kong harbor on Wednesday afternoon with all the political hoopla these actions seem to generate these days. Back when Hong Kong was a British territory, such…