It’s Messed Monday so We’re Showing You the Sources of the Stank.. lets start out with Mugs Eating Cake WHY ? 85 year old Robert Mugabe, the dictator of Zimbabwe, eats cake during his birthday celebrations in Chinoyi earlier today, where he insisted that his Presidential powers are still...

Over the past couple of weeks I’ve noticed three stories in the Taipei Times on the topic of preserving notable or historical architecture in Taiwan. Taipei County looks to rebuild site of weird UFO houses – I had actually written that I wanted to stop by this area and see the UFO houses...

Filed under: Indonesia, Australia, News After losing their wooden fishing boat off the coast of Indonesia, these 2 Burmese men grabbed the only thing they could find in the heaps of wreckage surrounding them. It turns out that this piece of wreckage would be their home for the next 25 days as they d...

Its hard to believe but Burma’s fleet of vehicles appear to hail from WWII. Its like travelling in a time machine! I snapped this photo in Mandalay.       ...

CVSTOS FIDEI MORNING EDITION Crystal Ball - Donald R. McClarey, American Catholic It Can Happen Here - John Zmirak, Inside Catholic Hook, Line, and Sinker - Patrick Archbold, Creative Minority Report USCCB Probe Aid Directed to ACORN - Julia Duin, Washington Times Abp Burke on Benedict's Reform of t...

Monday Morning Chuckle Cruising through Bangor last week I saw this funny nod to the old Burma Shave road-sign ads. The person who did this had a good sense of humor using campaign signs. For those wondering what the hell the whole Burma Shave sign-thing is about, learn more here. (Yes, it pre-dated...

After Eric's Trip, Wire, the Jesus & Mary Chain, and now Mission of Burma, I think I'm going to start watching bands full of old guys exclusively (I guess Eric's Trip aren't that old - also, not all guys). Mission of Burma was at the Plaza last night to perform Signals, Calls and Marches and a healt...

It's milestone day around here at The Garlic, today. Post No. 2,000. We were going to celebrate it with a really, hard-hitting, political cartoon , the type-of-thing, that wasn't really satire, but we'd say it was satire once people started complaining about it, but The New Yorker beat us to-the-pun...

We've been eating less meat, since the kids are leaving home (they are all confirmed and voracious carnivores ;-) among the recipes I've found useful is this warm Noodle Salad from Burma. We watched it being prepared at Borderline in Mae Sot when we did a cookery course there. I wish I had taken a p...

If we don’t do what we are taught in scripture, does it have any value for our lives?  What does it take for us to love our neighbors? Being in the middle of a high impact natural disaster (I live in a small town on the Mississippi river that will flood most of the buildins on Main St. by nex...