Hotel Rwanda

Just came back from watching Hotel Rwanda. Such a powerful story and great performance by Don Cheadle. And if you want to blame the U.N. after watching the movie, then I would suggest reading Deliver Us From Evil to understand how constrained the U.N. was and still is by the member countries of the Security Council.

It is also shameful to the human race that while we still have not solved all the human problems in this world, yet we have powerful animal rights interest groups lobbying for their well being.

December 24, 2004 0

Christmas present from U.S. Government

What a great surprise to find in the post our Green Cards from USCIS. Now we are U.S. permanent residents for real! With that little card, the threat of deportation vanishes and along comes the advantage of very short queue in airport immigration, among other things.

December 24, 2004 0

Trade off

If people, and by that I mean American, think that they can have both homeland security and civil liberty at the same time then they are very naive. But then American are always the ones who want the cakes and eat it too.

December 23, 2004 0

Washington D.C. photos

After much delay and procrastination, I’ve finally put up our Washington D.C. vacation photos.

The Reflection Pool

December 20, 2004 1

Age += 1

So today I am one year older and Leah bought me the best birthday present, a 20GB iPod, along with Pearl Jam’s On Two Legs (Live) CD! So my task for lunch time will be to visit my local Best Buy and get a case of some description, probably iSkin or something similar, to protect the iPod.

And this evening we are going out for a nice dinner at a French restaurant, Gascogne. I am debating perhaps I should try, for the first time, foie gras but I am definitely on the look out for snails!