I last wrote about Jaman, the internet movie site, almost a year and a half ago. IN the past year, Jaman's movie collection has increased substantially and they've added many new features to the site.

The Onion, as usual, got it absolutely right( is it satire if it's true?). A video published shortly after the elections was titled "Obama win causes obsessive backers to see how empty their lives really are"

Let me say at the outset that this post is for those few people who are still waffling about their choice on Election Day(tomorrow..finally!) If you have a) made up your mind and b) are surely going to vote tomorrow, this post is not for you. However, if you fall in ...

Apparently, according to the disgruntled old Punjabi lady at the sweet shop, the Livermore temple got it wrong when it "declared" the 27th of October as the date for Diwali. And so, ironically, a lazy agnostic like me trumped the ...

I’ve heard that some of my socially conservative friends are voting YES on Prop 8, the proposition that seeks to overturn the California Supreme court’s decision to allow gay marriages. This is my last ditch effort to convince them otherwise. I’m trying the Socratic method of Q &A to see ...

"Do you know how to spell photosynthesis?" asks the 6-year old. "P-H-O-T-O-S-Y-N-T-H-E-S-I-S," I reply. "I can spell encyclopedia," pipes up the 12-year old. "E-N-C-Y-C-L-O-P-E-D-I-A." "I can spell 'Joe-the-plumber'," says the 6-year old, with a giggle.

I don’t know if this has filtered out of the blogosphere and into the traditional media, but there have been some pretty ugly things going on at the various Republican rallies. - In one incident, John McCain asks the audience, “Who is Barack Obama?” The reply comes back ...

I don’t know about you, but I am exhausted by the excruciatingly long election season. First it was the interminable Democratic primaries, where we went through the entire gamut of emotions, from hope to disgust to frustration to disgust to incredulity to disgust..you get the drift. Now the post convention ...

While the rest of the Indian crowd is flashing dandiyas and twirling around in their ghagra cholis these couple of weekends, the Tam-Bram community in the Bay Area is quietly celebrating Navaratri with Golus, the collection of dolls arranged in odd-numbered steps. I write this while recovering from an overdose of ...

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