What do you get someone for International Mother Language Day? It’s this Friday, the 21st. For Mother’s Day, I used to go around and pick neighborhood flowers  for my Mom. But I don’t think that’s appropriate for International Mother Language Day, (or really appropriate for Mother’s Day either, as my Mom pointed out at the […]

When too many languages is not enough. In this year of the XLVIII SUPER Bowl, America’s greatest pageant, now with far too many Roman numerals to count, two Sunday’s ago we celebrated the first “pot bowl” in the history of the National Football League, dude, as two awesome stoner-state rivals met to decide football fate […]

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was accused of trying to start a war with China after he compared the two countries to WWI enemies. In a press conference at the World Economic Forum press conference in Davos last month Abe was quoted in the press describing current Japan/China’s tension as a “similar situation” to that […]