> Technorati Tags: afghanistan,hamid karzai,kabul,human rights,anti-women laws,sunni,shia BBC NEWS | South Asia | Afghan ‘anti-women law’ attacked [Source: BBC News] This news article leaves me a little speechless. The Afghan government is wholly supported by the United States government. That is to say, if our military was not present, this government would not exist. Said…

> Tech Startups Don’t Need the Valley Unless They Need VC [Source: Gigaom]   Technopole: a location with plenty of venture capital, a highly educated workforce, ancillary and support businesses, a research university in close proximity, a climate conducive to business ventures, and a pleasant atmosphere for raising a family. But is venture capital really…

> Technorati Tags: pakistan,osama bin laden,parachinar,GIS,geography,crime,analysis,animal movement Geography professor claims to have found Osama bin Laden – Telegraph An interesting article, and for my geography students, excellent Geography Journal fodder. Geographers, not just one as this article title alludes, have developed a model to narrow the search for Osama bin Laden. In fact, their analysis…

> South Bend, Ind.: Best Affordable Places To Retire – USNews.com I’m not going to argue the southern states. Those are a give-me. People of retirement age move south. The climate is better, generally, and the South & Southwest caters to the those that need assisted-living. The elderly do not really care for cold weather.…

> Source of the Amazon River : Image of the Day                         Wouldn’t life be easier if we could rely on things not changing, just being static, same thing, day-in, day-out? Sounds pretty lame if you ask me. However, textbook publishers would probably love…

>The questions our healthcare debate ignores [Source: Salon] Joe Conason writes a decent article compared to many I have read regarding the comparison of U.S. health care concerns versus health care concerns abroad. As the article states, there is no argument that a “gross” discrepancy exists in the value of U.S. health care and the…

>Americans have really weird eating habits. Just ask the rest of the world. They will tell you. What, no grasshoppers on the menu? Horse? Do you have horse? No horse? What kind of place are you running here? I guess that means dog is out of the question, then, huh? The greater portion of the…

>I have to rant. I’m really getting wore-out on all of this garbage. People sitting back and doing nothing while child-rapists and child-murderers get state-sanctioning. Yes, I’m talking about you, Sudan, The Congo, and Somalia. I’m sick to freakin’ death of it all. Meanwhile, back in the United States, we are victims of our own…

>I wish I knew the name of the jackass who wrote this article. These editorials are the type of crap I argue against. Read the editorial. The author says that we should hold off on being too proud of ourselves regarding shaving 15/100ths of a point from our Infant Mortality Rate. Who does this person…

>Iraqis Resort To Selling Children I am waiting for Windows XP SP2 to complete installing, and, as I am wont to doing in these episodes of spare time, I examine international news sources. This article in the English Al Jazeera edition caught my eye. I encourage all of my geography students to go outside the…