Tag: Poker

• A NOT SO FRIENDLY GAME OF CHESS

  Is the United States falling into an ISIS trap? Maybe if we played more chess and less golf we’d figure that out.

  Jamie Greening

  September 22, 2014

  blogging, Culture, politics

  beheaded journalists, Beheading, Chess, ISIL, ISIS, Poker, Putin, Strategy, terrorists, Trap

• DEATH, SOLAR FLARES, AND UKRAINE

  This is just one of those blog posts that can’t stay focused.   1.  Botched Execution.  Apparently Arizona had a very “Oklahoma-like” moment this past week when it tried to execute a man guilty of murdering his girlfriend and her father.  Click here for the WSJ’s report.  It took almost 2 hours for him to…

  Jamie Greening

  July 25, 2014

  All, Culture, politics

  Arizona Execution, competency, death penalty, Netflix, Oklahoma Execution, Poker, Putin, solar flare 2012, Solar Flares, Ukraine

• PUTIN, POKER, AND HISTORY

  I recently heard a commentator (forgive me, I can’t remember who it was or where I heard it, but I did hear it) describe the situation in Crimea as a game.  He said that Vladimir Putin was playing chess but President Barack Obama was playing checkers.  It was a clever line, but I think the…

  Jamie Greening

  March 25, 2014

  All, Books, Culture, politics

  Baltic States, Crimea, Georgia, NATO, Poker, President Obama, Ricahrd Kagan, Russia, The End of History, Ukraine