Turkey has been long attempting to join the European Union. Several factors have been hampering its accession, including the division of Cyprus, its treatment of its Kurdish citizens, and the large size of the country (which would allow it a lot of ...

We arrived at the amtrak station by the oakland colluseum with over an hour to spare. Bex was impressed with Kyle Crocodile's galant offer to escort her. Until she realized his true aim. He put down the bags and began rifling through his pockets. H...

Well, what I noticed about the earlier proofs I saw was that folks were running out to the big locomotives to complete this task. I wondered to myself, "Hmm, we have many forms of smaller railroads right here passing all over the city (or, as I ...

I had this music stuck in my head the entire day, it got louder the closer we got to the tracks. Play it as you read for added fill-in-the-blank-ness. [youtube:http://youtube.com/watch?v=LIgNCD3nzOg] This really seemed perfect. If you know me, yo...

It was amazingly nice out on Thursday so I figured a little tasking-by-bike was called for. I wanted to lay something neat on the tracks but it was tough to find something that: was flattenable and harmless to the train, while cool and yet without si...