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Unrequited Motivation

December 8, 2010

These are all the things I should be blogging, to clear the virtual backlog as it were: 1) The rest of the Ireland trip. More specifically, the stroll through an old monastery and an older glacial valley in Glendalough. I can’t get over how quaint-gorgeous-inspiring-calming this experience was and that I need more days like [...]

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And … Scene!

November 4, 2010

Live Science | Republican Fiscal Plan Could Slash Science Budgets … Those agencies include the National Science Foundation, which funds about 20 percent of all federally supported basic research in America, and which would lose 18.8 percent of its budget, or $1 billion. The Department of Energy‘s Office of Science would be set back $835 [...]

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An American’s Thoughts While Flying

October 27, 2010

* This Tom The Dancing Bug: Muslim On A Plane cartoon reminds me of the one thing I most desire from America: to be left alone. Conversely, and more specifically, I ask not to be judged based on the hue of my skin color and/or my sex. [Maitri's two rules for passengers: 1) Don't automatically [...]

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Welcome To Another Exciting Episode Of EXIT WOUND

October 7, 2010

As in “Things that go through Maitri’s head. And erupt out the back of her skull because they just don’t compute.” Exhibit A: A friend took this picture and added it to her photo gallery of Horrifying Frosting. It sure qualifies. Behold, mes amies, the 9/11 WTC cake. Things that went kapwing! through my head: [...]

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“Anti-Colonial”

September 14, 2010

Our media and pundits are useless. Thought I’d point out a few things about Dinesh D’Souza’s latest for Forbes in which he opines on Obama: Here is a man who spent his formative years–the first 17 years of his life–off the American mainland, in Hawaii, Indonesia and Pakistan, with multiple subsequent journeys to Africa. … [...]

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Working Mothers: The Horror

September 9, 2010

Athenae points out an article in which someone named HollyBaby refers to Angelina Jolie as an irresponsible parent for leaving her brood behind to travel to Dangerous Pakistan and help millions of little children left homeless and orphaned by the horrible recent floods. Apparently, it’s Jolie’s “obsession with thrill” that makes her commit such a [...]

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I Take The Bigotry Very Personally

August 24, 2010

And so should you. Blogging about the “Ground Zero Mosque” isn’t an exercise in politics du jour. If these arguments against the mosque and resulting decisions, however distracting from real American problems of the economy and jobs, are not combated early, often and vehemently, a lot more than an argument stands to be lost here. [...]

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Day 121 Sophisticated Technology

August 18, 2010

NPR | Hungry For Oil: Feeding America’s Expensive Habit A nice quick look at America’s current hydrocarbon extraction technologies. But this: New technology has changed oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico too. As seen in the wake of BP’s blown-out well in the Gulf, companies have sophisticated technology like remote-controlled submarines. That means they can [...]

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What You Can Do About The “Ground Zero” Mosque

August 17, 2010

I’ve written this post several times now and deleted it. The manufactured Ground Zero Mosque controversy is not worth talking about, in so many ways. Like Manish, I figure that ultimately “nobody is repealing the 14th Amendment, Muslim-bashing will simmer down after midterms and so on. This is just politics as bread and circuses. Anything [...]

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Day 106 The Oil Hasn’t Vanished

August 3, 2010

The oil has not vanished. I repeat: The oil has not vanished. The Gulf of Mexico’s summertime dead zone is twice as big as last year’s. Think about it: How can 206 million gallons of crude vanish in 19 days? 205.8 million gallons of oil flowed into the Gulf of Mexico = 2.37 million gallons [...]

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