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“The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.” — Mahatma Gandhi Are public figures more corrupt and depraved than they used to be?…

If you thought that The Same Old Song was just a sixties tune recorded by the Four Tops, you didn’t attend yesterday’s session of The House Committee of Financial Services…

There’s nothing sadder than an aging hipster, said comedian/polemicist Lenny Bruce. Little did he know his comment was spawning a cottage industry. There’s a band called Ageing Hipsters. A travel…

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”  — William Butler Yeats Advanced education for America’s youth has become like a mill.  Young people are…

See more Living in… posts by Bruce Haring. There are a few good reasons to move to Cambodia (known as Kampuchea or the Kingdom of Cambodia by its natives). The beer is…

“Hollywood is a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.” — Marilyn Monroe                …

See more Living in… posts by Bruce Haring. There’s a radio commercial playing in the Los Angeles area that sums up the Western attitude toward Laos. In the commercial, a…

See more Living in… posts by Bruce Haring. You know you’re in for a bit of a struggle when you live in a country whose most glorious moment was in…

To address the tactical advantage of mobility, I’d like to reference a story that’s familiar to most people, although in a different context. Many people interpret the story of David…

We live in an age where it’s very easy to blurt out whatever comes to mind and reach a worldwide audience. But as Voltaire — and Spider-Man’s Uncle Ben —…