Culture Stress – It’s Never the Big Stuff

Culture stress is seldom caused by the big stuff; culture stress is in the details. Most cultures are pretty much alike when it comes to the big stuff. Don’t murder anyone or steal something and you have a fairly good chance most places of evading a prison term. Where cultures diverge is in the details. [...]

Batman to the Rescue

It had been a long hard day in the village of Tambapmining and Kathy and I were tired. So we went to bed early for a well deserved rest. We had lain there only a few minutes, however, when Kathy nudged me and said quietly, “There is something in the house.” “Well, Duh,” I thought to [...]

It’s a Bug’s Life

Have you ever watched a swarm of ants trying to move a large bug?   Each ant grabs the bug and proceeds to pull in some random direction.  Ants are pulling forward, backwards, sideways, up, down, in any direction imaginable.  Yet somehow, inexplicably, the bug moves slowly in the direction of the ant hill.
I thought of [...]