Monthly Archives: February 2007

An Egyptian man, Abdel Kareem Soliman, was put on trial and sentenced to four years in prison last week.  The reason was that Soliman has insulted the Egyptian President and the main religion in that area on his blog. So … Continue reading →

Recently, I had an amazing time interviewing Daisy the Great.  Daisy was a kid like you once, only she had a whole other life.  Daisy lived in a small developing country in Africa called Malawi.  They had to work hard … Continue reading →

Hi, Anonymous Bob Here With More Push Back to Yet Another Push Back: As I was browsing the American Idol Pushback post, a statement one reader, Skip Rope, said really caught my attention.  They wrote: "… I laugh when someone … Continue reading →

Our recent podcast on Martin Strel swimming the Amazon has stirred up some thinking in the minds of our listeners.  Particularly interesting to people were the reasons that people do risky things and whether or not doing something risky makes … Continue reading →

There is a middle aged man named Martin Strel who is trying to swim the Amazon River.  He started a few weeks ago because he was searching for a challenge.  He has already swam the Danube, Yangtze and Mississippi Rivers.  … Continue reading →

We recently made a post on The Blurb that has been drawing lots of attention about American Idol.  One comment from Skip Rope said, "Good television to this show is television that will engage the viewers watching so that the … Continue reading →

On the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, a group called the Snow Leopard Trust is snaring Snow Leopards to attach GPS collars to them.  The GPS collars attached to them help the Snow Leopard Trust to track the Snow Leopards and research them. … Continue reading →

We’re looking at a well known event here in America—The TV show American Idol.  If you’re not familiar with the show, here’s a brief summary:  In the tryouts, tens of thousands of people from all over the US come to … Continue reading →

Oh No!  Our pet classroom doughnuts wandered off again.  Last we saw them, they were somewhere around the Balkan Peninsula, but when we went there to find and capture them, they had already moved on to somewhere else.  All we … Continue reading →

Today is Mrs. Chicken Hunter’s birthday, so we students in cyberspace thought that it would be only appropriate to sing to her.  Melvin has done so much work on The Blurb that we couldn’t let this important event pass without … Continue reading →