Smithbarney
- Location
- Concord, Massachusetts, USA
- Birthday
- May 22
- Bio
- Canned hedge fund manager using my millions to wipe out poverty, hunger and disease from the face of the earth.
MY RECENT POSTS
- Floating in Time: A Houseboat
in Kerala, India
March 12, 2009 10:18AM - Favorite Movie: Satyajit Ray's
"Distant Thunder"
February 19, 2009 10:03AM - Happy Birthday, Karen. Om
Shanti. Shanti. Shanti.
February 09, 2009 10:24PM - Ted Kennedy: A true friend of
the wretched of the earth
January 21, 2009 02:40PM - End the American Gulag:
Thoughts on MLK Day
January 19, 2009 07:27PM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Magnificent. How much
cooler is it over there now
compared to
the plains? Been
to…”
May 04, 2009 12:03PM - “Brilliant. In the only
picture I saw, while Brian
Lara has
completed his weight
s…”
May 04, 2009 11:42AM - “Beautifully told. You
bring out so well the changing
times
and mores over the
the…”
May 03, 2009 12:06PM - “(1) 1/2 True. You
managed to kick only
one of his
balls with
one of those
Thai…”
May 02, 2009 11:03AM - “Very funny. Maybe you
should do an Open Call "meme"
to ask
for other
in…”
May 01, 2009 01:54PM
Smithbarney's Links
Ashani Sanket, 1973
[Distant Thunder. Color, In Bengali with
subtitles. 101 minutes.]
Happy Birthday, Karen. Om Shanti. Shanti. Shanti.
&nbs… Read full post »
Ted Kennedy: A true friend of the wretched of the earth
Barack Obama and Senator Ted Kennedy, February 2008
In breaking news, The Boston Globe reported that Senator Kennedy has been released from hospital where he was taken and spent the night after suffering a se… Read full post »
End the American Gulag: Thoughts on MLK Day
From Birmingham to Barack, what a dream it has been.
In April, 1963, Birmingham, Alabama, Police Commissioner Eugene "Bull" Connor let loose the dogs and fire hoses on civil rights demonstrators on Palm Sunday. Martin Luther King was jailed, held incommunicado in solitary… Read full post »
Judge Ellis v. Madoff v. Aafia Siddiqui: You make the call
Judge Ronald L. Ellis, Bernard L. Madoff, Aafia Siddiqui (2001,2008)
Calm Judicial Eye in Storm Over Bail
This was the headline January 13 in the New York Times over a profile of the… Read full post »
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Parliament House, New Delhi
photo: Bill Strong
Dedicated to the memory of Mourad Amarsy and Loumia… Read full post »
The Concord
Bookshop, Concord, Massachusetts
Having led a somewhat unrooted life in my… Read full post »
Adivasi Megaliths c. 500 -1000 BCE, near Hazaribagh, India
Adivasis (literally, in Sanskrit, "original dwellers") are thought to be the earliest inhabitants of… Read full post »
Gandhi in Noakhali, East Bengal (now Bangladesh) c. Feb.1947
October 2, 2008
Today is Gandhi Jayanti, a national holiday in India commemorating Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi's birthday. Mahatma[1] Gandhi was born on this date in 1869.… Read full post »
At Woofy's suggestion and with my own sense of shared experience, this is for Susan Mitchell.
India is often experienced as cac0phony. As I have written earlier, it crowds and assails all your senses at once. Perhaps because of that, I cherish those moments most when I… Read full post »
These are the dogs of Bikaner, Rajasthan, India. (And yes, those are camel carts and bullock carts and Toyota SUV's in the background.)
I remembered them after my friend Caveat introduced me to the beautiful Cujo Chuggie and I read about his encounters with various religious sorts.
The… Read full post »
Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope.… Read full post »
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