My Canadian passport is currently in the hands of the Iranian Interests Section at the Pakistan Embassy in Washington. I’ve been approved for am Iranian visa, so now I am just waiting for them to glue it in my passport so I can go to Iran on February 24th. My understanding is that Iran has, …
Charlotte
When I first posted here a couple weeks back, some of you remembered that I used to post here a long time ago – 2008 actually. And a couple of you even remembered that I had a dog at the time – a Black Labrador Retriever named Charlotte. Well, I’m happy to report that she …
Thoughts About The Politics of Travel
Hello there. You most likely don’t know me. I’m Michael Demmons and I am a traveler and a travel blogger based in Atlanta, Georgia. I write at a blog called The Round The World Guys. It’s a place where my husband and I talk about our travels and offer tips & tricks about how you …
Thank You and Goodbye!
As suggested by the title of this post, this will be my last entry at Balloon-Juice. Before I say anything else, I must thank both John and Tim… I have really enjoyed this – more than you both know. And, for the rest of you, I haven’t mentioned my leaving before now to either John …
Jesse Jackson, Jr.’s Non-Denial of Misconduct
First of all, let me disclose that I don’t much like his dad. I don’t know enough about Junior to form an opinion. But if I was going on national TV to address the Blagojevich scandal, I would say something more substantive and definitive than, “I don’t believe we did anything wrong.” I would say, …
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My Dog Says Your Dog is Cute
My girl, Charlotte, says hi. (Actually, now that I look at this picture, she looks like she is pissed that she is getting her picture taken.) And this is a picture of our next door neighbor, Sophie, a Golden. Charlotte is a people dog. She does not like other dogs. The only exceptions are this …
And So It Ends
At 1:20 pm EST on Decmber 5, 2008, O.J. Simpson’s 13-year long hunt for “the real killers” (killers he apparently believed were hiding on golf courses in Florida) came to an end in a Las Vegas courtroom.