SO 2008 was pretty much a terrible year all around. One crisis after another hit the world: food, economy, bombs, shootings, no war that was on in 2007 ended in 2008, floods, starvation; the list goes on and on. The only thing that could have made the year worse would've been a McCain/Palin victory. Thank god for small mercies. And of course, I don ( Read more... )

SO this goes under the radar because it is very mainstream, but there is increadible racism against muslims and arabs brewing in the US. ANd it starts at the top--republicans AND democrats. Forget Bush etc, the war itself is built on racism; but even the anti-war folks, and the liberal darling Obama--'we will not babysit Iraqis forever'. Ok. SO you ( Read more... )

Been a whiiile since I've been on LJ. Sorry folks. Been totally swarmed by a bunch of stuff. Work--grant proposals, proposal, generals coming up; not to mention classes i've been in and taught. And extra-curricular stuff--organizing anti-war movement here; its incredible, the war has gone on 4 years now, 600,000+ dead, and an indian guy has to be ( Read more... )

* Zambia was Awesome. Great country, and as I think i said previously, great people...no bad experiences at all--except when my pocket was picked in Lusaka. But even that guy returned my wallet--it had no money, and he had nothing to do with the Credit/Debit cards ( Read more... )

Whatup people ( Read more... )

First, the attacks on tourists in Srinagar; then the serial bomb blasts in Mumbai. And, perhaps, the most in-your-face of it all, Israels rain of bullshit--with explosives on the inside-- on Gaza and Lebanon. Whatever people said about the Cold War, there's a reason why its called so. In the 90s and since the turn of the century, there's been such ( Read more... )

Summer Plans are final now ( Read more... )

Happy New Year everyone ( Read more... )

Money.

If you have $5000 to spare, please consider helping a poor graduate student do fieldwork.

Even though i've hardly written here for a long long time, rest assured friends, i'm very much up-to-date on your lives. Part of why i haven't written is that a couple months back i read something about blogging in a newspaper that set me back a little. It said that ebloggers, i.e. us, are self-indulgent narcissists who can't get enough of ( Read more... )