politics

So, I'm reading this article about the Indian Navy capturing some of the recently troublesome pirates we've been hearing about. The article goes on to say: "Indian marine commandoes boarded the pirate boats and seized 'a substantial cache of arms and equipment,' including

A friend of mine recently posted her thoughts on California's recent proposition 8, and tried to do so in such a way so as to not offend anyone. An impossible goal, I suspect. I applaud the effort. I don't have any such goal, because 1) this

So, there's this relatively famous Obama quote: "It's not that I want to punish your success. I just want to make sure that everybody who is behind you, that they've got a chance for success too," Obama responded. "My attitude is

So, yet another instance of a cop abusing his power with his taser. Instead of having to posses an even rudimentary ability to control a situation outside of brute force and physical violence, the cop tasers the kid for no justifiable reason. Some interesting viewer comments on the cop-car-cam video

At this very moment my manager is packing up the contents of his desk into a box. He is moving. He is moving over two desks. In what should have come across as a blatant show of my opinion of his intelligence I asked why he is not simply carrying

I read an article which stated that the 2007 budget for public education in the county in which I live (Cherokee) will be $600M. The student population will be 35k. Thus the cost per student will be a little over $17k. That's like a nice private education tuition,

I wonder how many of the MTA union workers understand the issues for which they are striking; and how many are blindly following their Union Leaders. These workers will eventually return to their jobs, and perhaps even with slightly improved pension plans or an extra dollar an hour. And yet