The GOI’s frantic efforts to save India’s “precious national heritageâ€� is not only a prime case of mis-placed priorities – it is also supremely ironical. I would laugh if I were not already so pissed off. What gets me is the hypocrisy of these “saviors” who have no clue about w...

More than one friend has brought to my attention this piece from Salon, taking up the cudgels for a schoolgirl here in South Carolina: Friday February 27, 2009 06:11 EST Criticizing Ty'Sheoma Bethea I thought it would come from Michelle Malkin or Rush Limbaugh, but Malkin is too busy planning he...

This article was syndicated from: Wealth Junkies Deciding On Your Budget Priorities Most people consider budgeting the fastest way to better money management. Even if you’re already comfortable with your financial situation, a little budgeting can go a long way in making sure that you really a...

Obama has to invest more in soldiers, families, veterans and must improve healthcare. A lot of people are waiting to see if he keeps the promises he made on this issue during the campaign. The military also should be restructured... There is too much dependence on National Guard and Reserve units (s...

I'm rather disappointed at these people for being so careless/dumb/sly with their taxes. I mean, if you make that kind of money, you can hire an accountant to do your taxes correctly. You sit down with him/her, tell everything you......

This is the twelfth post in an article series about MIT’s lecture course “Introduction to Algorithms.” In this post I will review a trilogy of lectures on graph and shortest path algorithms. They are lectures seventeen, eighteen and nineteen. They’ll cover Dijkstra’s Al...

I'm currently in the Huntsville, Alabama area visiting my brothers and my mother. My mother is in hospice care with congestive heart failure and we do not know exactly how much time she has left. Mercia is in Brazil visiting her family. Life throws some unintentionally cruel, but nonetheless bru...

RICHMOND, Jan. 14 -- Gov. Timothy M. Kaine told the General Assembly on Wednesday that he will use his final year in office to cultivate a major expansion in environmentally oriented jobs and try to work through partisan barriers to steer Virginia through severe financial turbulence....

Hi. It feels like January in New York. I don't know what else to tell you. Actually I do. • I'm going to try to post something special this Friday. Not quite a Pointcast, but more than just a playlist, it's a bundle of songs inspired by 01.20.09. Let's call it the Obama Sutra. • Find, Friend me:...

I've been reading 1st and 2nd Chronicles recently and noticed a pattern. Over and over a king will be described as doing or not doing "right in the eyes of the LORD." However, most of the good kings are also criticised for not tearing down the "high places." High places were hill tops, literal "high...