Stupid, vicious and did I say stupid yet?

I like the way this Black Friday insanity story begins: From the Great Depression, we remember the bread lines. From the oil shocks of the 1970s, we recall lines of cars snaking from gas stations. And from our current moment, we may come to remember scenes like the one at a Long Island Wal-Mart in [...]

‘The View from the Center of the Universe’ – Chapter 1

“The View from the Center of the Universe: Discovering our Place in the Cosmos” by Joel R. Primac and Nancy Ellen Abrams – a book. Amazon | Book Website | Primack is a physicist who has done significant work in cosmology. He is married to Abrams, a lawyer and writer with wide-ranging interest and knowledge. [...]

The most terrifying video you’ll ever see

Well, at least one of the most sensible Never ceases to amaze me what’s happening on YouTube these days – thanks for the heads-up, Jim!

Mumbai – running towards the explosion!

No religion which is narrow and which cannot satisfy the test of reason, will survive the coming reconstruction of society in which the values will have changed and character, not possession of wealth, title or birth will be the test of merit. – Mahatma Gadhi In my youth religion shone brightly with non-violence. The religion [...]

A good goodbye . . .

. .. no, a great one! Goodbye, we can say at last, to the most powerful man in the world being such a ridiculous buffoon, incapable of stringing together two coherent sentences. Goodbye to cringing with dread every time our president steps onto the world stage, sure he’ll say or do something to embarrass us [...]

Grim forecast in the wake of the Indian Violence

Update: 3:30 AM EST 11.28.08 From a Wahington Post analysis: “This is a new, horrific milestone in the global jihad,” said Bruce Riedel, a former South Asia analyst for the CIA and National Security Council and author of the book “The Search for Al Qaeda.” “No indigenous Indian group has this level of capability. The [...]

Gin – one very talented dog and owner

Dom sent me a link to this saying it helped take his mind off the news – I agree. There are other videos of the same dog doing some other routines. Amazing. But what I love about this is that they took the dance routine and made it into a show inthe same way the [...]