Dollars not accepted here
The New York Times news blog, The Lede, reports that Indian officials are no longer accepting US dollars as admission to the Taj Mahah, one of the seven wonders of the world.
For years, five US dollars were the standard ticket price. Now tourists will have to pay 500 rupees, which is about [...]

The Des Moines Register, the most staid of Iowa newspapers, is inviting its readers to publish their own Iowa Caucus news videos on the Register’s YouTube page.
Carolyn Washburn, editor of the Register, introduces the project in this video:

At times insightful, other times just plain silly, the videos submitted so far are none-the-less fascinating for [...]

A quotation in a post by Mark Cuban led me to reminisce about how it was to have a president whom most Americans respected and many revered. It is one of my favorite sayings by John F. Kennedy:
“We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive [...]