Sonali Kolhatkar and Jim Ingalls are very excited to announce the birth of their first baby, Neal Sarkis Kolhatkar. Neal was born on Friday August 24th at 11:08 pm at Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena, California. He weighed 6.7 lbs and measured 20 inches.

politicalconScience.net and SonaliAndJim.net are merging and moving to a new web host. Now both Sonali and Jim will be blogging on the same site, LoveAndSubversion.net. Pardon our mess as we get organized.

A note on the name. Originally we thought up “Love and Subversion” for our band, but we haven’t written or recorded music in about five years. Sonali started a new career and the both of us put a lot of time into our book …

I’ve been out of touch for over a month now, so I apologize to those who might have been interested in my thoughts on current events. My grandmother who I was very close to became very sick and then passed away on April 2. I was in Boston helping to take care of her and being with the family and helping with funeral arrangements for a little over two …

I am sorry I haven’t been able to post at all in the past week. Due to a debilitating flu and a family emergency I have hardly had time to turn on the computer. I hope to be back to more frequent posts (one every 2-3 days) in a day or two.

Meanwhile…If you haven’t done so yet, check out the wonderful coverage of the World Tribunal on Iraq by Zeynup Toufe.

I now own politicalconscience.net, so the “official” URL for this blog is now http://www.politicalconscience.net. The old address will still work, too. Everything is on the same host, so nothing should change.

I guess that means this is a “real” blog and I have to write “real” posts…

Jim