While Indians don’t worship monkeys per se, monkeys are considered sacred by many and revered by many others for their association with the Hindu monkey god Hanuman. You’ve seen photos of these under-regulated primates, usually rhesus macaques, roaming freely through the streets of New Delhi and other Indian cities. It can be problematic. In 2003, […]
At least I’m not the kind of person who sees a turtle crossing the road and swerves to hit it. (Ref: AP news article.) In all honesty, though, it would be more accurate for me to say that I’m no longer such a person. When I was a kid, there was a place in my neighborhood where dime-sized […]
I sat briefly with two policemen at Starbucks this morning. Just sat my ass right down at their table. They were on break and hadn’t invited me to join them, but whatever. I wanted to know whether it’s legal for joggers to jog in the road when traffic is present. I wanted to know this […]
