I’m watching Capital Talk on Geo TV out of the corner of my eye as I research madly for news from Pakistani and foreign press sources about American troops on the ground in northwest Pakistan....
John McCain is white; conversely Barack Obama is African American. It is an obvious but important statement to make. McCain's whiteness is often ignored in the mainstream press. Conversations about...
It’s been an amazing year so far, a year for records, accomplishments, and individual triumphs that have shaken the world. We all watched the Olympics, in which dedicated athletes would compete...
A lot of people want a New Cold War. After all, the War on Terror is just too confusing and troublesome and, let's face it, terrifying. Poker-faced Soviet villains had hot side-kicks. Hollywood loved...
One late night during the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, as the swimmer Michael Phelps smashed yet another world record, I walked through Philadelphia thinking over its history and was struck by how well...
The problem with democracy is that sometimes the person that comes into power is exactly the person you wish would get arrested and sent to prison forever. In the case of Pakistan, it has come to...
Unless you are just now joining civilization, you may have heard of a little film called "Batman: The Dark Knight." It is not the first Batman film, of course; the popular character from the comic...
A Mermaid named Nala Met with Jessie the Rabbit To discuss what the Old Adage say. While sharing a laugh For each less than better half (Fixed Fools who were long drawn away), They pushed through the...
By most accounts Hurricane Gustav was not nearly as bad as it could have been, and New Orleans appears to have been spared—though it was only after the winds and rains of Katrina had died down and...
Far be it from me to reinforce stereotypes about Pakistani attitudes towards the safety and security of women. I am a product of Musharraf's Enlightened Moderation and the soft image of Pakistan is...
