Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying

A Muslim majority country of over 150 million people just held a high-turnout peaceful democratic election. The secular Awami League won a landslide victory in Bangladesh’s parliamentary elections and is poised to send back to power Sheikh Hasina - one of two women who have led Bangladesh in the past - as the country’s Prime [...]

Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich’s appointment of Roland Burris to the US Senate is either the work of a complete madman or the gambit of a political genius. Either way, Blago must have a set of these.
Go Blago! Damn the torpedoes!

I hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas. Ours was great. Santa was good to my daughter this year, because she was (mostly) good throughout the year. I, on the other hand, am still without a Nikon D90
After the presents were unwrapped, my family and I went to the movies. I saw Slumdog Millionaire - a [...]

The most anonymous victims of murder are the victims of genocide. We count the victims in numbers - one in a hundred thousand, one in eight hundred thousand, one in three million, or one in six million. The scale of the crime is so vast that it dehumanizes those of us who live to bear [...]

On December 16, 1971 the Pakistan army in Bangladesh unconditionally surrendered to the joint Indian and Bangladeshi forces. With the signing of the Instrument of Surrender, Bangladesh came into being and united Pakistan was at an end.
However, in Pakistan the state-controlled and censored media was in denial. The day after General Niazi of Pakistan had [...]

Caroline Kennedy, daughter of John F. Kennedy, is apparently interested in the New York Senate seat that will be vacated by Hillary Clinton. Good for her. I hope New Yorkers think it is good for them as well.
Markos of Daily Kos however does not think this is a good idea. He thinks this appointment is [...]

In the wake of the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, earlier this week, the president of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari wrote an op-ed in The New York Times urging India and Pakistan to work together to battle terrorism. He argued that terrorists are out to destroy Pakistan and that India and Pakistan have a shared interest [...]

President Bush successfully dodged two size 10 shoes thrown at him by an Iraqi journalist today. As far as I know, the journalist did not ask a followup question.
I come from a country that has a long tradition of taking the shoe to politicians. However, I have never seen shoe throwing taken international before. For [...]

Steve Hildebrand, the Obama campaign’s steller field general, has a message for me and other like-minded progressives. The message is: "Hush".
In a post at the Huffington Post entitled "A Message To Obama’s Progressive Critics", Hildebrand writes:

This is not a time for the left wing of our Party to draw conclusions about the Cabinet and White [...]

Sometime yesterday, this little blog crossed the one million page views mark. As I write this, the visit counter tells me there have been 1,002,072 visits to this blog since I started writing on March, 2006.
When I started this blog, I had no idea if anyone would read it. To my surprise, readers started to trickle [...]