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Quarter million animals sacrificed at Hindu festival {Gadling}
Nov 25th 2009 4:09PM Once again, you are making assumptions to justify your world view. I made no judgment call on the festival, merely reported on the controversy. The Nepali Hindu animal rights activists and The Times of India made judgments, so if you have a problem, take it up with them.
Quarter million animals sacrificed at Hindu festival {Gadling}
Nov 25th 2009 2:01AM Ah, nothing like selective illiteracy! I made no comment on the festival, merely reported it. You filled in the rest.
Four forgotten Civil War battlefields {Gadling}
Nov 23rd 2009 5:45PM It was the beginning of the end for Hood's Army of Tennessee. He wasted huge numbers of men on frontal assaults against a foe that was well dug in. Several other commanders made this same mistake, including Grant at Cold Harbor, Sherman at Kennesaw Mountain, and of course Lee at Pickett's Charge. It takes a while for military strategy to evolve.
Relative stability brings tourists back to Zimbabwe {Gadling}
Nov 23rd 2009 3:21PM Interesting project! I'll drop them a line.
Relative stability brings tourists back to Zimbabwe {Gadling}
Nov 23rd 2009 2:00PM I've always wanted to see the ruins of Great Zimbabwe. The photos I've seen are so evocative of a great civilization that I know walking through the site would be a memorable experience.
I'll be writing a series of articles on interesting grassroots NGOs while I'm in Ethiopia, so if your friend's foundation fits the bill, drop me a line.
Relative stability brings tourists back to Zimbabwe {Gadling}
Nov 23rd 2009 1:26PM Eric,
Glad you had a good time. Your comments can apply to many countries people consider dangerous. Some of my best travel experiences have been in the Middle East, Syria and Iran in particular. Bad governments don't mean bad people!
What were your favorite spots in Zimbabwe?
Oh, have you been to Ethiopia? My wife and I are going there in February and I'm trying to gather all the tips I can!
Four forgotten Civil War battlefields {Gadling}
Nov 19th 2009 2:59PM Yes, Wilson's Creek is a great battlefield! Have you been to Carthage? That's an even earlier battle in Missouri and one of the earliest in the entire war. That and, of course, the "Boonville Races", which lasted only about twenty minutes! I´ve been to Boonville but not Carthage. Not much to see at Boonville.
An open letter to Kim Jong-Il of North Korea {Gadling}
Nov 14th 2009 2:12PM You've made a couple of assumptions here. You assumed I didn't know NK was open to tourism, when I never said that and we've reported on it several times. You also assumed I thought there was a food shortage rather than a distribution problem, when I was specifically talking about distributing food. It seems your eagerness to sound better informed has hurt your reading comprehension skills.
The grad school prose doesn't impress either.
An open letter to Kim Jong-Il of North Korea {Gadling}
Nov 13th 2009 7:36PM Well, that would be one way to get my fiction published.
Miners accused of destroying part of Great Wall of China {Gadling}
Nov 13th 2009 10:14AM That would be ideal, but at the moment there are no pictures available to us of the damaged portion of the Wall. Hopefully some will become available, and we will certainly post them if they do.
