Otto's Random Thoughts

Well, I just got a very nice e-mail from Agnes of the Islands so I do indeed have a reader in Sweden. She pointed out that I had originally ...

I have a strict policy of reciprocity regarding blogroll links. If you link to me I will link to you. If you delink me I will respond in kin...

I want to keep my one day conference small so I can manage it properly. Right now I have heard from nine people expressing an interest in v...

I have one more week in California before I return to Paradise. I have managed to eat quite a bit of ethnic food not available in Arivaca in...

It looks like I now have seven people willing to come out all the way to Arivaca to deliver a paper for my conference on international borde...

I really wanted Ghana to beat Brazil. I knew it was a near impossible task, but I have seen miracles before. The players from Ghana overall ...

Italy won again only because of the bad call of a corrupt ref. They got an unearned penalty kick at the very end of the game. Clearly the Au...

On 25-26 June 1941, the Soviet NKVD brutally tortured and murdered 74 Lithuanians in the Rainiai Forest. Two of the perpetrators of this cri...

It now looks like I have five presenters for my conference on migration and international borders. This is shaping up much faster than I ex...

It seems that we the American people have spontaneously decided in the wake of our elimination from the World Cup yesterday to now back the ...

Jon Chang left an interesting comment on my post "Big Idea: Step One Completed." It deals with the ethnic Chinese in the Soviet Fa...

I received the following e-mail today from the conference organizer. I am posting it verbatium without any alteration. I will not be postin...

I knew Ghana was going to be a tough team. As a result of the ref robbing of us of a properly earned goal against Italy we will now not adva...

This is an excerpt from another review of my second book, Ethnic Cleansing in the USSR, 1937-1949 (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1999). It was pu...

The following excerpt is from a review of my second book, Ethnic Cleansing in the USSR, 1937-1949 (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1999). The revi...

I met with my Hollywood film maker today. She was very nice. We looked at some of the raw film footage she has taken and discussed the proje...

Tunisia played very well for the first 70 minutes. They led for most of the game by 1 to zero. Then Spain scored three goals in the last tw...

I am currently waiting for my Hollywood contact to call me to tell me she is on her way down here. But, last night when I was surfing the in...

Ukraine smoked Saudi Arabia today. It was a great game and Ukraine proved itself in spades. It looks like Ukraine will be able to advance to...

In reality the US won this game, but the corrupt ref took away our second goal. Despite being reduced to nine men and being robbed of a legi...