I had a good conversation until late in the night with a Muslim friend and fellow KAUSTer about the day-to-day aspects of practicing Islam. He described how it differs from Judo-Christian religions in that it is a daily lifestyle. They have five prayers a day based on sunrise, noon, evening, sunset, and nighttime. Being a [...]
I went to the IKEA in Jeddah yesterday and picked up some things. It is just like here, but the prices are in ٠,١,٢,٣,٤,٥,٦,٧,٨,٩ numbers, not what we call Arabic numerals. The prices are a bit more expensive. I had to rush through checkout because just after I passed through they partially shut the store [...]
Northern states could pay for their own single-payer universal healthcare system if they simply equalized the flow of federal funds so that it treated states fairly and did not subsidize the South. George Bush Jr. (43) succeeded in one thing: convincing us that the US government is useless. In my off-time here in the Kingdom of Saudi [...]