Category: Random Thoughts & Idle Chatter
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(be sure to click for enlargement!) In a comment to a previous post, I wondered about George Bush’s reading habits or even whether he has one. If we are to believe White House presidential aides, Bush is a regular book worm and an erudite one at that. The presidential reading list put out for public…
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Namit Arora, whose attractive archival website Shunya is already on our reading /viewing list, has launched a more conventional blog for general commentary – also named Shunya. Namit divides his time between the US and India. So I presume he will write on matters pertaining to both places. I expect his blog to reflect his wide…
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Exactly a year ago I launched Accidental Blogger with an equal amount of excitement and trepidation. In my very first post I explained the motivations for starting a blog. I was not quite sure then for how long I would be able to keep up the effort and one year seemed a long time. I…
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Stupid? So far into the season, the New Orleans Saints are 5-1 and the Houston Texans are 1-4. Perhaps you remember that the Texans passed over Reggie Bush and Vince Young as their first draft pick and went for Mario Williams. The Saints picked Bush. (Young is the rookie Q.B. for the Tennessee Titans) Not…
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Now a news report suggesting that Osama bin Bogeyman may have expired peacefully in his bed from a virulent bout of typhoid. Curiosity had me googling to check out the original French article which detailed the leak of classified French document which claimed that Saudi authorities ‘would have ‘ acquired information regarding Bin Laden’s demise …
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The blogroll on the left has increased by one. The site came to my attention through a comment left by its author on Accidental Blogger. The author of the weblog uses the blogging nom de plume "Shunya," Sanskrit for zero. I am not sure why – perhaps he will tell us. His site certainly belies…
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It is the end of the week and I am quite exhausted by discussions of death, destruction and discord. So it is a good time once again to take a break and figuratively dust off some of my old art work (that is because I have not painted anything new) and share them with readers.…
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Although the majority of articles that appear on Accidental Blogger are posted by me (Ruchira Paul), the principle author, A.B. does have five guest bloggers who post from time to time. Since guest posts are infrequent here and though the authors’ names do show up at the bottom of every post, readers often do not…
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The last few days’ events involving senseless civilian deaths in the Mumbai train bombings, Israel’s escalating war in Lebanon in search of Hizbollah militants and the usual bad news from Iraq, have me despairing once again, about the state of the world. I feel anger, fear and hopelessness. I can point fingers at those who…
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Type Pad experienced some serious downtime yesterday. Due to resultant glitches, some data from the published posts and comments were lost. Also, if anyone tried to post a comment yesterday during that period, you probably were unable to do so. I also noticed this morning that a couple of the recently published comments have disappeared.…
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My friend and former roomate, Justin, recently started a blog ("More Cowbell"). It reminds me of Accidental Blogger on the days when we are not all ranting about George W. Bush, in that a number of interesting topics are discussed. What I like about it is that Justin has completed one year of medical school…
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