Miserable Sunday

Actually everythings fine, except for this whole national debt ceiling fiasco.  So intelligent of the Republicans to risk sinking the national economy, and hobbling the world economy, to serve their own political agenda, i.e. disabling the Obama administration, causing a deepening of the recession (and blaming it on him), all while kowtowing to their sacred mantras of no taxes on the rich, no federal programs of any kind, no cuts to defense spending, no increased taxation on corporations (despite the fact that, for example, while we were in recession BofA posted something close to 80 billions in profits for the last year - or less), the right to bear guns anywhere at anytime for anyreason, and access to pornography and prostitutes illegal except for congressman and Christian ministry...

Dead at 27

Brief slide show of eight music greats of this century who all died at the age of 27, the latest being Amy Winehouse.  From SF Gate'

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/g/a/2011/07/24/TwentySevens.DTL&object=%2Fc%2Fpictures%2F2009%2F11%2F13%2Fdd-2782164_421990791.jpg

An article I wrote on Kashmir just before the troubles started again in June of 2008.

http://pology.com/article/090315.html

And another from the same online journal on trekking in Nepal during the People's Revolution of 2006.

http://pology.com/article/06715.html

http://www.economist.com/node/18928416?story_id=18928416&CFID=167205861&CFTOKEN=11818269

I like the article, but the cartoon is the best ... "Wilt thou be my Visagebook friend?" What about "Hast thou perused my most recent electronic missive?"


http://www.economist.com/node/18928416?story_id=18928416&CFID=167205861&CFTOKEN=11818269