This NYT article alerted me to the work of Ms. Lange in documenting the idiotic insanity of American guvnmhent's internment of Americans (I rather not use hypenated terms of identity here) at camps in the middle of nowhere in western United States, such as at the infamous Manzanar camp, California.

While I had previously consumed Ansel Adams's powerful work on the same subject, this unearthing of Ms. Lange's photographs is a welcome reminder that what folks in this country have to really fear is fear itself; this in context of all the mind games, using color coded threat levels, which (the still all-knowing) guvnmhent uses to with play with their emotions. There are only too many reminders from history of the consequneces of fear morphing into stupidity, and even worse, cruel and unjust laws. Enough of ranting; go look at sets of these stark photos here.

My H1-B visa application went through (after languishing in INS purgatory for months) late last week. But this NYT article (h/t Sepia Munity) doesn't give me much hope of ever crossing over into the "human" side from the "alien" side (I am a "resident alien") here in the United States, unless of course I take action, and legally change my name.

So I am taking suggestions here: I need a last name with less than or equal to two vowels in it, such as Smith or Jones or Bush*, and a nice first name. For staters, how does Bob** Smith sound? :)

* I harbour hopes that my imaginary spawn (or spawn of spawn) will run from president one day, and no way in heck is there gonna be a President Dandamudi - okay, a little more likely if there is a President Obama before that