Obama and the Civil War

A few pictures from a recent civil war re-enactment  that I visited. Amongst the bonnie blue flags, ball gowns and cannon balls, it was a pleasant surprise to hear Obama’s name not just once. That really tells you a lot about the contemporary national sentiment

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Things to Ponder about!

Haven’t been blogging for sometime now, but here are some things that really bother me

Palin and her folksy values about guns, foreign policy and global warming. Palin is becoming more of an issue, not due to her inferior competency but due [...]

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CNN Citizen Journalist

CNN recently launched ireport.com dedicated for user produced news. This has taken blogging and user involvement to a new level.

CNN executives acknowledge that iReport.com’s openness is something of a departure for a news organization that prides itself on accuracy and editorial judgment. But iReports have become increasingly popular, and in many cases have even proved [...]

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Clinton Lecture at UVA

A day before the primary at Virginia, noted political scientist invited all the presidential candidates to deliver a guest lecture to his class at the University of Virginia. The first to accept would be invited to speak and it was Clinton’s camp.
Clinton spoke for 10 minutes, after which the conversation turned into a question and [...]

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On Kidney-Snatchers and Guns

Dr. Amit Kumar, the kidney king-pin managed to make it to CNN.com’s front page as he was nabbed in Nepal.
Elsewhere, in Missouri, a gunman shot down 5 people as he stormed into a city council meeting.
Wonder where the world in going!

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TSA Blog

Transportation Security Administration [TSA] finally come up with their blog!

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Nano-materials: Both sides of the picture

Nano-materials are projected to be an extremely promising class of materials possessing properties that are new, cheap and easy to engineer for a variety of applications. One of potential applications is that of drug delivery. Nano materials like carbon nano-tubes and fullerenes have been effectively used to transport drugs to specific cells in the body [...]

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Meat Consumption and Global Warming

I have been a vegetarian for most of my life. Me being a vegetarian stems from the fact that I hail from a Brahmin family where religion forbids meat consumption. When people asked me why I dint eat meat, my reply during high school and college was that I was a Brahmin. During my graduate [...]

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Holiday shopping or shooting spree!

An hour after President Bush left his fund-raiser at Omaha, Neb., a gun man in the same town went on a shooting spree in a shopping mall. More than eight people were killed before the unnamed shooter shot himself.
First the bad weather and now this incident, its definitely not a good start to the holiday [...]

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Left KO elsewhere

This has definitely not been a good season for the communists around the world, be it Cuba or India.
Hugo Chavez had some cruel intentions which irked me; I guess he was well within the rights of any communist agenda.  Although, Chavez recently lost the elections  to the Prime Ministers office, mandate from recent elections in [...]

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