Piracy Dino-Tracker

We here at Dino have seen the disturbing upward trend in piracy this fall. We are also aware of our constituency’s deep concern about this issue. You may be asking yourself, where is that 20-ton shipment of short-shorts I ordered? How come my Saudi crude oil hasn’t arrived yet? And our Dino-Staff is committed to bringing you answers to these questions.

That is why we are introducing the Piracy Dino-Tracker, so you can get all of your maritime hijacking related news in one condensed post. Check out this week’s entries:

• Somalia’s Pirates Flourish in Lawless Nation
• Pirates Seize 7 Ships in 12 Days
• Hijacked Supertanker Reaches Somali Port
• Thai Fishing Boat Hijacked
• Indian Navy Sinks Pirate Ship

Quote of the Day

In January, Bush will be history, leaving liberals all alone in a frightening world. Little else will change. Radical Islam will still authorise murder without limit, Iran will still want the bomb and the autocracies of China and Russia will still be growing in wealth and confidence. All those who argued that the ‘root cause’ of the Bush administration lay behind the terror will find that the terror still flourishes when the root cause has retired.

Nick Cohen, “Why Bush has been a liberal’s best friend“

This is actually one of my biggest reasons for supporting Obama as a conservative: to essentially call the world’s bluff on everything being the fault of George W. Bush.

Were McCain to win, the talking heads would simply denounce him as Bush II and we’d have at least another 4 years of Europeans hiding their head in the sand instead of acknowledging that maybe some problems are not the fault of George W. Bush.

Only with a symbolic and decisive break from the past–in this case an Obama election–will the world be willing to stop blaming us. And if even the election of the consummate anti-Bush is not enough to get Europeans to act like allies, perhaps it will finally sink in to the editorial board of the New York Times that maybe Europeans simply cannot or will not cooperate with us, and coupled with the fact that their relative power on the world stage declines even faster than our own maybe it’s time we look for some new allies.

Like, say, India.

Dino-makeover

As self-coronated blog admin, I have taken the liberty of changing the appearance of DinoBlog–without consulting the other bloggers, natch.

I would like to note that the use of a serif font makes our posts look at least 60% more erudite.

What would be really cool is if I had the technological savvy to make our own truly custom Dino-template. Then again, since I’m in Bangalore, perhaps I can go commission someone down the street to do it.

Holy Shit, India

Hello my adoring and multitudinous fans!

I have been traveling since mid-June. I spent two weeks visiting Bejing, Seoul, and Singapore (and Hong Kong for just long enough to get dim-sum and a Frappuccino). For the entirety of July, however, I have been in India. And it is best summed up in the eponymous title above.

Yes, I have gotten sick at least once a week since coming here, and no I have not been blown to smithereens by terrorists.

I have been rather preoccupied with issues of survival and jumping through the flaming hoops of India’s legendary bureaucracy. I’ve been here a month and only now have I finally arrived in Bangalore to find a place to call home–or The Batcave, because that sounds super badass.

Updates will be forthcoming.

xoxo,

-Janus