Musings of a modern guy

In a reversal of a previous decision, the Supreme Court agreed to hear appeals from Guantanamo inmates challenging their detention. It always seems something like what a banana republic will do; arrest people and put them in jail, for what seems like an indefinite time interval. No trial, no promise of a conviction that would […]

China is suddenly getting hit with a bad rap over the quality of its products. First it was pet feed, toothpaste, and now it is fish supplied from China. Based on the fact that US inspectors found an unsatisfactory level of quality in Chinese fish farms, and found drugs in the seafood that were not […]

You knew cities were big, but there was always the thought that a major section of people still live in the countryside. No longer so. The United Nations Population Fund publishes a report that states come 2008, a majority of the world’s population will be living in cities. Given current population, that number would be […]

So, the day finally arrived when Tony Blair finally got pushed out of the Prime Minister’s job by Gordon Brown, his closest associate for quite some time. In the jostling over this position for the past 1-2 years, Brown finally managed to make his way to the coveted 10, Downing Street Home, and Blair got […]

Since 2003, when local rebels took up arms against the Sudanese government, it responded in a bloody way, unleashing an arab militia known as the janjaweed. The Sudanese government denies supporting this militia, but it must be the only one that believes in this statement. These militia raid villages in the rebel zone, raping, killing […]

For once, the Bush administration was on the other side of a recent US Supreme Court decision, although the decision was welcomed by the Republican party. The case was about issuing ads, and challenged the provision of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance bill that restricted the issuing of ads that portrayed candidates negatively or positively, even […]