Archive for August, 2007
Democracy and religious fundamentalism in India
We should be paying attention to this: While Americans have focused on President Bush’s “war on terror,” Iraq, and the Middle East, democracy has been under siege in another part of the world. India — the most populous of all democracies, and a country whose Constitution protects human rights even more comprehensively than our own […]
Hand it to the Catholics
While the price of birth control pills on college campuses in US has skyrocketed this year due to Bush’s Deficit Reduction Act, Brazil is looking to prevent unwanted pregnancy by subsidizing the pill. If our politicians really were interested in reducing abortions, they wouldn’t make it so difficult to prevent pregnancy.
happy feet
As Manolo says, this shoe is “designed solely to make you feel happy.”
Embarrassing incident of the day
So I’m sitting in a coffee shop, reading some papers, trying to figure out some data when a woman who I have a huge crush on, who has no idea I exist, sits at the table next to me. I realize as she’s leaving an hour or so later that I’ve probably been talking to […]
basil
I think I should lay off on the recipes that require basil. My poor plant looks a bit naked.
the fall semester
Classes: Calculus III, Botany, Topics in Environmental Biology Work: 10 hrs a week at a local non-profit, 10-20 hrs a week tech support, 10-20 hrs a week in the lab Fun: Occasional naps
how much evidence
Can you imagine a murder case being thrown out for lack of evidence when there were eyewitnesses and DNA evidence? Probably not. But it happens with rape. Even when rape is reported, it almost never results in conviction and very rarely does the perpetrator face serious jail time. Perhaps if this crime were taken more […]