Welmer

Most of my favorite blogs are hosted for free by wordpress.com or blogspot.com, and while the templates they use are generally presentable, they would be better served by self-hosting with a good web host. Even a minimally customized WordPress blog offers far more flexibility and options than the free hosting services, and one can freely [...]

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In my last post concerning marriage I created a hellish picture of its current state, suggesting that there is sufficient cause for its abolition. I think it’s important for people to think seriously about this. When something has gone so horribly wrong as contemporary marriage has, it is time to evaluate its worth. We should [...]

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Globalization was a euphemism for progress for decades, but now that the world is coming face to face with the problems it has created people are beginning to see what they’ve lost as their connection to local communities weakens and loses relevance. The big issues created by globalization, such as outsourcing, loss of industry and [...]

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Seattle has come to be known as a very difficult place to break the ice. Penetrating the tightly woven social cliques in the city frustrates newcomers and natives alike, and a number of theories have been proposed to explain this phenomenon. Some blame the ethnic composition of the city, which includes many Scandinavians and East [...]

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There are a number of political factors pointing towards an emerging alliance between the incoming administration and the dominant Hindu majority in India. For one thing, the opposition to fundamentalist Islam can now be applied from a largely non-Christian vector — an alliance of New-Age liberalism, Neoconservativism and Hindu nationalism. The plurality of the Democratic [...]

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