This is about what I had figured.

Interesting article in The Diplomat about the inability of the Congress Party of India to give up the idea of (wait-for-it) a decendant of Jawaharlal Nehru / Indira Gandhi to come along and be the Chosen-One Golden-Child to lead them.

Never mind that they don’t seem to avoid sudden violent death at an early age, ( Read more... )

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The Ascended Masters have revealed to me and me alone where I will be and what I will be doing at 5:14 AM (CST) on December 21, 2012, facing the end of the 13th cycle of the Mayan Long Count.

I will be realizing that I have to get out of bed and go the bathroom to avoid a monumental event ( Read more... )

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Apologies to the folks out there who have wondered if I fell into a dark pit, because I basically did.

During the National Skating Championship in Lincoln at the end of July, I got seriously blasted and drained by a week of 105-110F temperatures (I don’t do well in heat, and never have) and ( Read more... )

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People have been asking in all sorts of ways as to how I’ve been doing since the surgery; the answer is that I’m still off my feet, still in a doctors care, but doing better.

The foot surgery was held up for several hours because, as usual, people were having a lot of trouble getting an IV into me. Including the anesthesiologist, who was somewhat ( Read more... )

Even if I were still a Republican, I think I would have been one of those people who were not terribly impressed with the ‘talent’ available that’s running for the GOP Presidential nomination.

Too many people have suddenly made major ‘conversions’ to more ‘conservative’ positions out of the blue - because they suddenly decided that their interest ( Read more... )

Highly recommend the Grauniad….er, the Guardian’s coverage on this story.   And the New York Times has been adding its bit.

My own take is that we’re just seeing the beginning of the lift-the-rock-and-see-the-bugs-scatter part of bringing down News Corp in all of its various manifestations, and ti’s going to come on like a freight train.  But we ( Read more... )

…Toyotoho!  Kohler’s $6500 way-high-tech toilet, with all the gimmicks.  (last two links are to YouTube.)

If you ask me what the real situation is with the Japanese reactors, I’d say I haven’t the foggiest (but I’m alarmed) because there’s so much stuff being spouted in all directions, and that I have little faith in any entrenched bureaucracy or organization to tell anything straight in the direction of bad news.  I am absolutely repelled by the ( Read more... )