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When you arrive at the train station you have to fight your way through the local people trying to give you a ride or sell you something. Once you enter the station look for the desk that se ...

When you arrive at the train station you have to fight your...

To sneak me out and find McDonald's we had to take a short bike ride through the streets of Bangalore.

To sneak me out and find McDonald's we had to take a short bike...

Agra Fort-3.jpg

Agra Fort-3.jpg

We walked up on this cow eating a potted plant that it has knocked over. What you cannot see in this photo is that there are two of them, both nearly eaten. A lady came out of the store a mo ...

We walked up on this cow eating a potted plant that it has knocked...

The Final Night

The Final Night

Daf Yomi

Degenerates in Lebanon

Our old pal Nasrallah up in Lebanon appeared in public for the first time in a long time according to recent news posts. Not to rehash all the old news about how Israel messed up in not being able to lay proper waste to this man in the LW2 and also to avoid thinking [...]

Kind Of Nice To Be Right

But it kind of sucks too. I just did a quick lunchtime read of the The Iraq Study Report and the situation is not looking too good for Iraq. I wish I could say I was amused, even sarcastically bemused, at the smug sense I get while reading. Everything those of us on my [...]

EUROPE: What are you going to do now?

Hot on the heals of accusations of war crimes, excessive force, and other hot air from the Old World there comes news of an impending problem in Gaza:

Yuval Diskin, director of Israel’s Shin Bet Security Services, told the Knesset last month that since the Jewish state withdrew from Gaza, the Palestinians successfully have [...]

Nasrallah Wins The War

So says this week’s The Economist cover story. A quote from the opening paragraph:

Israel’s prime minister set himself an absurd aim�the complete demolition of Hizbullah’s power in Lebanon�and failed to achieve it. The shrewder Mr Nasrallah said victory would consist merely of surviving, and Hizbullah, however battered, did survive.

They want to [...]

Are They Kidding?

It is images like this, from NYTimes, that make me howl at the computer! I am assuming that the fence is somewhere on the southern boarder with Israel. This is not going to be the end of the influence of Hezballah has on this region, the state with in a state is note gone. [...]