india

As profiled here at KK a couple weeks ago, Adam Sherlip is planning an extraordinary journey to the Kashmir province of India to teach kids the Coolest Game on Earth.  You might be thi

Southern Beale on our consumption-based economy:

William Briggs, statistician, has his list. And I must agree that it's pretty close to a list I'd make up, if I ever did. These are not strictly war movies, but ones set in wartime and dealing with military characters. My only quibble - all the wars of the movies he selects are recent.

 
the beloved: rudrani devi

The former Commander-in-Chief would consider an offer from Obama:

"She does not know her beauty." So Nina Simone sings in "Images." (I cannot find the song on YouTube, otherwise I'd share it here.) Please know your beauty.

Other things:

Bukowski tour via Esotouric. (I like the accompanying picture.)

Last week for family night we did a “Compassion” night where we let the kids help us select a child to support through Compassion International.

I can’t tell you how cool it was to partner with our kids in making a difference in the life of a child thousands of miles away.

A request from the land of the rolling Enron black-outs for a $7 billion loan from the Federal Government, which is itself already in hock to China and India:

A few weeks ago I was thinking to myself, When is a major going to get rid of its physical distribution and outsource most functions or partner with another company?