MySpace http://blog.myspace.com/jmlakin http://b4.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/01492/42/88/1492888824_m.jpg http://blog.myspace.com/jmlakin en-US Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:37:15 GMT http://myspace.com blog.myspace.com 60 133834169 [This posting is also live at New Vision]Sinaloa*Nobody lives here anymore.  Whole towns, completely abandoned.  The only sounds: creaking doors, padlocked, when the wind surfs through, a fe... http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=133834169&blogId=325538144 http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=133834169&blogId=325538144 Tue, 16 Oct 2007 18:13:00 GMT What defines an election in Uttar Pradesh, India's biggest state, and, were it to be its own country, one of the world's largest democracies? Polls in UP are primarily about two things: crime and puni... http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=133834169&blogId=259686314 http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=133834169&blogId=259686314 Tue, 01 May 2007 07:22:00 GMT Posted January 26, 2007   I do not know why, but many Indian-Americans I have spoken to think that caste is dead in India today.  They believe, and maybe their parents believe, that cas... http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=133834169&blogId=222170991 http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=133834169&blogId=222170991 Fri, 26 Jan 2007 01:13:00 GMT Posted January 14, 2007 1. Asian Values Some years back, during the roaring nineties, Singapore's authoritarian Prime Minister, Lee Kuan Yew, extolling "Asian values," attributed the lack of democr... http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=133834169&blogId=217780402 http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=133834169&blogId=217780402 Mon, 15 Jan 2007 09:57:00 GMT Posted January 9, 2007 Yesterday, Mexican President Felipe Calderón inaugurated the so-called "Medical Insurance for a New Generation" program in the state of Morelos. With this, he put into effect on... http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=133834169&blogId=215553498 http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=133834169&blogId=215553498 Tue, 09 Jan 2007 15:21:00 GMT January 4, 2007   Marty wrote about everything.  He wrote like he ate: voraciously, maddeningly, with fragments of juicy bites flying in all directions, covering his face, his hands, and th... http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=133834169&blogId=213586287 http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=133834169&blogId=213586287 Thu, 04 Jan 2007 16:38:00 GMT 4.5 million cadavers.  That is my estimate of the number of people who have died due to violent conflict in Africa in the last decade.  The number is easy to calculate.  About 4 million... http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=133834169&blogId=210428976 http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=133834169&blogId=210428976 Wed, 27 Dec 2006 18:47:00 GMT Posted December 25, 2006   It's Christmas.  Today is a day to be with family, to say thanks to friends and to celebrate plenty by giving generously.  Generally, we give most generously ... http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=133834169&blogId=209763722 http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=133834169&blogId=209763722 Mon, 25 Dec 2006 21:29:00 GMT Posted December 19, 2006   *A shorter version of this post appears on the New Vision blog, Foresight.   During the 2004 presidential campaign, John Kerry made reinsurance a cornerstone of hi... http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=133834169&blogId=207363457 http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=133834169&blogId=207363457 Tue, 19 Dec 2006 08:42:00 GMT December 16, 2006 Today's news contains a bit of good news from the U.S., some bad news from America and India, and a couple very ugly tidbits from India. The good.  The Census reports&... http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=133834169&blogId=206091540 http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=133834169&blogId=206091540 Fri, 15 Dec 2006 21:53:00 GMT