Rumi Nations

2012 is when the world is going to end!!! Well, last year, the starting of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN was supposed to bring it all to a close. I would not haved cared too much if it had happened then or if it would happen this time around. But, unfortunately, I am skeptical. Nostradomus of course is the one who's supposed to have forseen all of this ... This time though people are alluding to some Mayan calendar. In our own country, people have their own versions of really old documents ... which are dusted off and folks claim that it was all preordained ... after the fact. Gail Collins has a good article about all this here ... http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/14/opinion/14collins.html?_r=1&th&emc=th Dennis Overbye also debunks the doomsday sayers here ... http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/17/science/17essay.html?hp

Well, not quite. But the opinion piece columns in the New York Times as well as the Wall Street Journal were analyzing the results of the gubernatorial elections in New Jersey and Virginia and a few Congressional elections and it was interesting to see the contrasting conclusions that they drew from the same results. While Obama supporters like Gail Collins and Maurren Dowd described the results as being not connected to Obama's presidency and local in nature and therefore having no bearing at all on Obama's performance or lack of it, WSJ columnist Peggy Noonan describes these results as a wake up call for the Obama White House. It seems to me that the results might be described using that rather ungainly phrase: "anti-incumbency" factor. That's a very popular phrase during elections in India when the voters find an outlet to show their anger at the government and throw out whoever is in power. I think it might be the same in the U.S. as well where lobbyists have ...