http://www.rajeshwar.net/blog (but check back for updates!) Sat, 09 Jan 2010 08:07:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en After the first half of the BCS championship game, I didn’t know who I felt worse for – Colt McCoy or Garret Gilbert.  On the one hand, Colt McCoy was knocked out of the biggest game of his life, just as Texas was about to take an enormous lead against ... http://www.rajeshwar.net/blog/bcs-championship-game/ Given that I consider the Nobel Peace Prize (past recipients include: Jimmy Carter, Al Gore, Henry Kissinger, and Yasser Arafat*) and hosting the Olympics (past recipients include: Beijing ‘08, Moscow ‘80, Berlin ‘36) to be dubious ‘honors’, I really can’t get particularly worked up over Obama winning the former and ... http://www.rajeshwar.net/blog/obama-olympics-and-the-nobel-peace-prize/ It’s not surprising that Mike Huckabee comes in first, with 28%, but I think it’s notable that Mitt Romney, an until-recently pro-choice Mormon from Massachusetts, does no worse that Tim Pawlenty and Sarah Palin among religious conservatives.  Also, watch out for Dark Horse Mike Pence. http://www.rajeshwar.net/blog/value-voters-straw-poll/ I don’t really follow tennis, but I would have to agree that this is one of the most beautiful shots I’ve ever seen: Joe Posnanski is on point, as always. http://www.rajeshwar.net/blog/best-point-in-tennis-history/ House MD and Heroes are on at the same this year. http://www.rajeshwar.net/blog/this-is-going-to-be-a-problem/ Ernesto Zedillo just told his seminar that, given the recent economic meltdown, “all of you who can still get out of economics – do so”.  Perhaps a bit tongue-in-cheek. http://www.rajeshwar.net/blog/the-dismal-science-is-now-the-failed-science/ Seriously, it is.  It’s so far ahead of Windows Vista that I’m never going back.  I’d encourage anyone who has the ability (Yale students, for instance) to immediately upgrade to Windows 7 for free.  It took me a total of 3 hours, and has made me a very happy man. ... http://www.rajeshwar.net/blog/windows-7-is-amazing/ A specter is haunting America: the specter of profit. We have become fearful that somewhere, somehow, an evil corporation has found a way to make lots of money. - Yale Law Prof. Stephen Carter in today's Washington Post. Read the whole thing. http://www.rajeshwar.net/blog/quote-of-the-day-2/ As members of Congress discuss a tax on cosmetic surgery to pay for the healthcare bill, the blawgosphere covers the pressing question raised by Glenn Reynolds - whether this taxation of medical procedures could be extended to abortion. Paul Caron suggests that a tax on abortion specifically (although not generally) would be seen as infringing on the ... http://www.rajeshwar.net/blog/can-abortion-be-taxed/ Shelby Steele says affirmative action is a distraction: We blacks know oppression well, but today it is our inexperience with freedom that holds us back almost as relentlessly as oppression once did. Out of this inexperience, for example, we miss the fact that racial preferences and disparate impact can only help ... http://www.rajeshwar.net/blog/recent-must-reads/