Day 990: On The Brain Of Late
Posted on May 14, 2008 - Filed Under desi / india, government, science & technology | Leave a Comment
* In another display of his infinite wisdom, our president recently stated that food prices are going up because … wait for it … India’s growing middle class is getting richer and eating too much. First our jobs, now our food? How dare those incorrigible browns! In response, Indians folded up their collective lungi and […]
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Posted on May 12, 2008 - Filed Under government, movies/tv | 3 Comments
NOT FUNNY: I’ve got your “education and training” right here, John McCain, you awful, misogynistic douchebag. Now make employers pay me what they pay a guy for doing the same work! And thanks for setting women’s rights back about half a century in the minds of your supporters. Ugh.
FUNNY (Thanks, Slate!):
This […]
Day 985: Barack Obollywood
Posted on May 9, 2008 - Filed Under desi / india, funny, government, music | 4 Comments
This one’s for Alli:
Read More..>>Posted on May 9, 2008 - Filed Under blurbs, global, government, travel | Leave a Comment
In my last post, I mentioned the possibility of travelling to Myanmar later this year to help the victims of Cyclone Nargis rebuild. Thanks to the latest actions of the military “leadership” there, Americans may not be let in until then.
Read More..>>Day 984: The Victims Of Cyclone Nargis
Posted on May 8, 2008 - Filed Under global, government | 8 Comments
Last week, D and I watched a Discovery Channel program which traced the Ganges all the way from its Himalayan headwaters to the Brahmaputra delta of southern Bangladesh. While talking about the Sundarbans, the fertile estuarine environment where the river meets the sea, much like Southern Louisiana and the Mississippi delta, the narrator mentioned a […]
Read More..>>Day 982: Laura Bush Should Know All About “Inept” Responses
Posted on May 6, 2008 - Filed Under WTF, global, government | Leave a Comment
On our way to and from Jazzfest, many of us have the opportunity to walk through formerly-flood-ravaged portions of MidCity. Do you notice in the spraypainted Xs that many houses were not visited by boat until September 11th, 2005, almost two weeks after much of New Orleans was submerged? How would you rate the disaster response of […]
Read More..>>Day 976: America’s Continuing Battle With Necessity And Innovation
Posted on April 30, 2008 - Filed Under desi / india, education, global, government, science & technology | 1 Comment
ZDNet: Indian techies snubbing US jobs to stay home
Indian tech graduates are increasingly turning their back on western countries in favor of finding work at home … Between 1964 and 2001 the number of IITians staying in India was 65 per cent but this jumped to 84 per cent between 2002 and 2008.
I suspect most of […]
Posted on April 29, 2008 - Filed Under WTF, blurbs, government, new orleans | 11 Comments
Read this from Humid Haney. I really hope someone made the whole story up or that the offending party was wrongly identified as the City Councilwoman for whom I voted. It would be a shame to have Haney make me a t-shirt that says Yankee B**** which I will then wear to City […]
Read More..>>Day 974: “I Never Vote For Anybody”
Posted on April 28, 2008 - Filed Under government | 1 Comment
“I always vote against.” - W. C. Fields
Is it just me or do you think McCain is going to win because of the egos and indecision within the Democrats nestled in this stupid process of delegates and winner-takes-some? How else does a party go from two viable candidates to implosion? I’m with Cliff on this: “Play rock, paper, scissors. Just […]
Day 974: The Grey Ghost Strikes (Again) In My Hood
Posted on April 28, 2008 - Filed Under We Are Not Ok, government, new orleans, pictures | 3 Comments
New Orleans City Business seems to be catching on to the menace that is Fred Radtke a.k.a. The Grey Ghost, The Blobster, etc. and the carte blanche offered him by NOPD. You may wonder “Why is graffiti and painting over it such a big deal when New Orleans floodwalls may have been stuffed with newspaper and John […]
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