Today was the first day of classes in our junior high school.
The kids seem to be OK;
All 193 of them.
*sigh*
We classroom teachers will be getting our first monthly pay check six weeks after we reported for our first day of work last week.
For what is now the sixth year, I’ll be receiving the same take-home pay.
And, like the prices down at our local Wal-Mart, what is expected of us (more…)
Last evening, I watched Hillary Rodham Clinton give her speech in support of Obama at the Democratic Convention.
Interestingly, she never promoted (or even mentioned) Obama’s fitness to be the commander-in-chief. (I don’t think McCain’s handlers will overlook that omission either.)
In my opinion, her remarks were a lukewarm endorsement at best.
But don’t take my word for it, go over there, (more…)
Exercises in Translation has started translating news items in Russian and Georgian on the conflict between Moscow and Tbilisi over Abkhazia and South Ossetia. In the two most recent posts, for example, the blog translates a news item on Russian president Dmitri Medvedev's interview to French TF-1 and a Georgian news item reporting that ethnic […] (more…)
Malishevsky analyses (RUS) Belarussian President's Alyaksandr Lukashenka, relationship to God from his frequent invocations of higher powers in speeches and public appearances, especially when it comes to foreign relations.
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