The month of February is going to be a busy one for me. I may not be able to blog with as much regularity as I have done so far.  Two guest authors have kindly agreed to help out. Joining me on Accidental Blogger will be Joe (who also blogs at Unreal City ) and…

There is a wonderful post, "What To Do With a Mexican Jumping Bean: Science and Poetry" at Professor Amardeep Singh’s blog. Please visit there. Those who have agonized (or just wondered) over the so called conflict between reason and imagination, empirical evidence and the metaphysical or even evolution and Intelligent Design, will find it illuminating.

After little more than two months of blogging and much procrastination, I have got around to publishing a list of blogs that I read, as a tribute to other bloggers – please see on the left.  Some of them are well known, widely read blogs, some are smaller and lesser known.  All offer good reading…

I am taking a short cut to blogging today. I am doing what I had hoped not to do in my blog – post a Bush joke. I have a large cache, all emailed to me by my Democratic women friends.  I have very little time today to post a thoughtful story, so I am…

Apparently, in Washington D.C. there is no building named after Lyndon B. Johnson, the first US president from Texas.  Texas legislators are now hard at work, looking for a "solid edifice" to name/rename after President Johnson. It is common practice to name public thoroughfares, buildings, airports, parks etc. in honor of national and local dignitaries.…

In a previous post , I had pointed out how an event which grabs the public and media attention, can sometimes add new words to our vocabulary. Similarly, a traumatic upheaval can add new meaning or connotation to an older existing word or expression. In the last three and a half years, with two ongoing…

Tumultous events add to our vocabulary. The recent tempest in a teacup caused by the nomination and withdrawal of Harriet Miers appears to have enriched the English language: (italics mine) "A contributor to The Reform Club, a right-leaning blog, wrote that to get "borked" was "to be unscrupulously torpedoed by an opponent," while to get…

I started this weblog exactly a week ago.  I do not plan to make a habit of giving out periodic progress reports – the health of the blog is my concern, not that of the readers.  But I would like to give a brief summary of some of the things that transpired in the first…

I came across this story a couple of days ago.  The writer mentions several reasons why people assign nicknames to themselves or to others – to describe a person in an aptly complimentary, derogatory of affectionate manner. But what is G.W. Bush’s proclivity for nicknames due to?  The writer thinks that he is trying to…

Why: In early 2005, my daughter Sanjukta invited me to participate on Dissemination, a weblog created by her friends.  I did so with some trepidation since I was unfamiliar with the electronic forum. Sharing my opinions freely with family, friends and perfect strangers on the other hand, is an old habit. Joining the discussions on…