Category: Current Affairs
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Around the Thanksgiving break in last November, was one of the Feel-Good, Miraculous stories of the season: Rom Houben, a comatose Belgian who had been bedridden for over 23 years, was actually communicating with the use of helpers, even without the benefit of normal faculties like speech or much muscular effort. From the BBC article:…
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Brinjals, or aubergines or eggplant, as they are variously called in different parts of the world, are the center of a major brouhaha over biotech crops and their introduction in India, one of the most lucrative markets for seeds in the world. Bowing to the pressure of numerous activists and at least 10 state governments,…
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In the wake of the devastating earthquake in Haiti, two right wing media commentators have been heard spouting their usual reactionary drivel. Televangelist Pat Robertson blamed the people of Haiti for bringing about their own misfortune by making a pact with the devil and Rush Limbaugh used the occasion to cast aspersions on President Obama, who he said would exploit the disaster to…
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Sabios Costumam Mentir … The baby Jesus had to contend with only three on Christmas and they were thoughtful enough to bring birthday presents, wrapped if you please, judging from the fuzzy cell phone snapshots of the day. Two millennia later we have a putz with a package in his pants, and a plague of…
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Even if it was a couple of days late, following much-maligned misspeaking by Janet Napolitano, President Obama's comments on the Undie-Bomber brouhaha were right on the money. Napolitano, interview on CNN, Dec 28: "What we’re focused on was making sure that the air environment remains safe, people are confident when they travel, and one think…
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A palpable sense of dismay crept over me as I watched President Obama's speech on Tuesday in front of Westpoint cadets so tired many almost seemed to fall asleep before it got over ( See reason for tiredness here) The facts were plain: A surge of 30,000 troops to be added post-haste, logistics/lives be damned,…
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Here are the suggestions of Sujatha, the humble not-so-uber-geeky blogger, on C&Ping from webpages when composing blog posts: 1. Focus on Tested Websites, not obscurities. (Psalm 345:1-3) Notice how Sujatha extols Google first. Then, in comparison to Google, she has no need of alternate search engines. "The Google is my light and my salvation; whom…
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The bill passed yesterday that Pres.Obama was ecstatic enough to personally email me about it at 1:03 am. And here I thought that only Hillary Clinton got 3 am calls.Here is the section by section summary link of the HR 3962, the Affordable Health Care For America Act All's well and good,even with a restrictive…
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More US troops have died this year in Afghanistan than in Iraq, the first year starting 2003 that's been true. Obviously that fact reflects both that the US Iraq toll has been coming down since 2007 (for reasons of surge or Anbar Awakening or whatever) and that Afghanistan seems to get more horrible each year.…
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Over at Faculty Lounge, Calvin Massey somehow manages to conclude (1) that Gates acted stupidly and (2) that the police officer did not act stupidly. How? By twisting the facts — beyond even those stated in the official police report. A pedestrian out for a walk notices two men wearing backpacks jimmying open the front…
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More effective than the war on crime? Absolutely. More effective than the war on drugs? Hard to say, and that question might even be a bit fallacious. More effective than the war on people? Doubtful. But at least we're using the same techniques — blow up the enemy, kill without remorse — that have helped…
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