Bring on the dancing pandasFrom the lobby of the Kathmandu Guest HouseFriday night, there was nothing for it but to break out the newly-discovered mic ... View all

I love reading novels set in the 70s. How could I tell, even without checking the copyright date, that this book was written in the early 70s?"...livi ... View all

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Thank you for patiently awaiting the wonderful post I'm about to unveil for my day trading, option scavenging, investment guru audience! (ok so maybe ... View all

Published on Tuesday, September 16, 2008 by McClatchy Newspapers by David LightmanWASHINGTON - No one cog in the federal government's machine of finan ... View all

Published on Tuesday, March 28, 2006 by TomPaine.com by Mark EnglerLast July, debt relief was all the rage. Bono crooned at the Live 8 benefit concert ... View all

CPM activists demonstrating against water scarcity at the Delhi Secretariat in the Capital, 2003. (Photo: The Delhi Tribune)Published on Tuesday, Febr ... View all

I am leaving for Europe for a couple of weeks. I have a bunch of posts blocking up my the space in my brain, I guess it will have to wait. So until th ... View all

This is the sort of thing that makes me really optimistic that there is life not only on other planets, in other solar systems, in this or other galax ... View all

I think I am going to do a couple of posts on perceptions of science. I am not in the science arena, I use it every day as an engineer and I understan ... View all

It was a real doozy today on NPR. First, they profile a young woman being an 'intellectual rebel' by her quest to fall for every bit of conspiracy th ... View all

This is how the culture of death moves toward cultural hegemony: The first step is to claim that killing (which is descriptive and accurate in that it ... View all

I sometimes despair how hard it seems to be for so many people to "get" why attempts to depersonalize some humans as we personalize nature are so harm ... View all

< All Quiet on the Blogging Front – and then there was IDF Dick James Things have been a bit quiet lately; not that there haven’t been topics ... View all

Why the Shoulder Muscles Are So Important Without much special attention, much effort to develop all the muscles of the shoulders, they never attai ... View all

In 2004 the American Prospect staged a website "debate" over whether President Clinton’s domestic policy had been sufficiently liberal. Ann ... View all

Did you miss my post for the Daring Bakers’ April Challenge? I thought so. Not that you would have wanted to see my efforts because the April Challeng ... View all

First, scusami for the long break-- I am in Italy! No, I didn’t run away with one of the Italian pastry chefs. What I am up to back in Italy so soon a ... View all

As you will know by now I'm not too amazing when it comes to pastry. I didn't even make this pastry, it came ready made from the shop, but still I ca ... View all