Segmentation Fault: Core dumped..;-)

The more I hear/read about President D. Eisenhower, the more I like him

anand — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:05:59 +0000

This guy was way ahead of his time. Hats off to you Sir.

Math Education: An Inconvenient Truth

anand — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 11:23:17 +0000

If you've kids going in Elementary School here in United States, I think you owe it to yourself to watch this 15 minute video. I am not sure how universal the issues raised here are, but if it is, I think this video will open your eyes and may empower you to do things a bit differently.

You can check out wheresthemath.com site to get more information on this.

Thomas Friedman is B-A-C-K!!!

anand — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 20:39:44 +0000

...how much, since 9/11, we’ve become “The United States of Fighting Terrorism.” Times columnists are not allowed to endorse candidates, but there’s no rule against saying who will not get my vote: I will not vote for any candidate running on 9/11. We don’t need another president of 9/11. We need a president for 9/12. I will only vote for the 9/12 candidate. Yes, in the wake of 9/11, we need new precautions, new barriers. But we also need our old habits and sense of openness. For me, the candidate of 9/12 is the one who will not only understand who our enemies are, but who we are. Before 9/11, the world thought America’s slogan was: “Where anything is possible for anybody.” But that is not our global brand anymore. Our government has been exporting fear, not hope: “Give me your tired, your poor and your fingerprints.”...Look at our infrastructure. It’s not just the bridge that fell in my hometown, Minneapolis. Fly from Zurich’s ultramodern airport to La Guardia’s dump. It is like flying from the Jetsons to the Flintstones. I still can’t get uninterrupted cellphone service between my home in Bethesda and my office in D.C. But I recently bought a pocket cellphone at the Beijing airport and immediately called my wife in Bethesda — crystal clear...We can’t afford to keep being this stupid! We have got to get our groove back. We need a president who will unite us around a common purpose, not a common enemy. Al Qaeda is about 9/11. We are about 9/12, we are about the Fourth of July — which is why I hope that anyone who runs on the 9/11 platform gets trounced.
- Thomas Friedman, "9/11 Is Over"

Good to have you back Tom at your very best. Oh, and I will say what Tom could not - "Mr. Rudy Guiliani, you will NEVER get my vote and any VOTE that I could influence unless you start acting like the man that my brother deeply thinks you are".

Beware the Leader

anand — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:01:31 +0000

Too bad we as a race don't seem to learn from such lessons.

Bush Gonzales Cartoon

anand — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 05:30:32 +0000

[via BobGeiger.com: The Saturday Cartoons]

Too good

Why am I not surprised

anand — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 06:57:42 +0000

I don't know Mr. Cheney personally. What I can tell you is this - I don't like him, to put it very very mildly. And I know I am not alone in this.

He’s Dead!

anand — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 17:49:56 +0000

In one Chicago public school, a teacher was calling attendance, and when she got to the name of a particular student who wasn’t there and had missed a lot of classes, she asked if anyone knew where he was. And the answer she got was, ‘He’s dead.’ Over the past school year the number of public school students killed in Chicago was higher than the number of soldiers from the entire state of Illinois who were killed in Iraq during that period.
- Senator Barack Obama at the Vernon Park Church of God speaking about the murder of dozens of public school students since last September in Chicago

I hate guns. I much rather prefer the way we used to settled scores when we were kids - good old fist fight and/or wrestle. I don't think things would have been pretty if guns were as prevalant back when we were growing up. My biggest nightmare: Someone I love getting hurt or killed in gun violence because a moron decided to use his/her gun to vent. What if that something terrible happened to be Emma? I am not sure what I would do. Needless to say, it would not be pretty. This madness M-U-S-T stop.