Well, I’ll be a monkey’s uncle.  A honest to goodness case of whites being disenfranchised by minorities! White Power types must be ecstatic at finally having a case–however isolated and utterly atypical it may be–to cite as they spin their lurid tales of minorities taking over America under the guise of multiculturalism and affirmative action. Get back to me when there are more young Caucasian men in prison than in college, knuckleheads. Whites Faced Election Bias In Mississippi, Judge Rules... Read more

Or more precisely: How to blog without wasting eons of time you don’t have to begin with. Am still deliberating–with the glacial but, I think, dignified pace of an Ent pondering weighty matters–the fate of my blog and general engagement in the Blogosphere. I very much enjoy exchanging ideas with kindred spirits and blogging is a hard habit to kick. Especially after you’ve watched something like "Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism", as I did recently.  Timely activist documentaries of... Read more

Grew up in Boston, but lived for a while in the Ying to Vermont’s Yang, New Hampshire. I remember people complaining about other New Englanders driving up during the Fall and crawling along backroads while they gawked at pretty foliage with their heads out the windows. They called ’em "leaf peepers". Vermont has a more familiar type of "peeping". Vermont: City Known for Nudity Opts for Emergency Coverage – New York Times People in parts of a Vermont town known... Read more

Faith and Theology has uncovered the secret of European civilization, and our lack thereof: chocolate. Faith and Theology: A theology of chocolate To enter a little French or Swiss chocolaterie – the sight! the smells! mon Dieu, the taste! – is one of life’s most sublime experiences. The development of existentialist philosophy in France and of neo-orthodox theology in Switzerland can, in my view, be traced directly to the quality of the chocolates of those regions. (On the other hand,... Read more

There’s an article in Nirali Magazine called “The United Colors of Desi” on South Asian women who marry across racial lines. Shabana is one of the women mentioned, and it includes a nice picture of the three of us, the taking of which required me to hunch over like Quasimodo. Read more