Anthony Minghella, Olympics and the Baseball season

 Some random thoughts here... As a lot of you must know by now, Heath Ledger died from a drug overdose awhile back but there has been very little coverage on Anthony Minghella's death about a week ago. I just want to pay my respect to a very talented director who unfortunately passed too early. One can only imagine what other beautiful works of art he could've produced. There's been a lot of talk about the Tibet riots, China's response, Western media's coverage and what the Olympics mean to the general Chinese. I've been reading tons online (I'm a news junkie btw) and found the majority of the views overly simplistic with no context in terms of history. An objective view of who the Dalai Lama is and what he's done or what kind of society Tibet was before the invasion in 1950 could help provide a more nuanced coverage of what happened instead of arguing over the exact number of fatalities. As the Beijing Olympics draws near, there are more talks of a boycott among other things and I found an article on Huffington Post that really gives a nuanced view of the whole matter from the Chinese perspective.  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tom-doctoroff/tibet-beijing-and-olympi_b_93920.html Finally, the 2008 baseball season is finally upon us. I bleed pinstripes btw. For those who don't know baseball, I'm a crazy Yankees fan. Let's Go Yankees!!! Watched almost all the games last season. Read all the news, watch all the video highlights, read most of the blogs and even some scouting reports... There are only two things I like more than the Yankees in this universe and that's coffee (once, I almost bought a coffee roaster to roast my own coffee at home) and Macs (I love the company so much that I actually bought Apple stocks back when it was at $14 with my rent money, only if I didn't sell it to pay my rent, I would've been many times richer!) Time to do my "Yankees Dance" to appease the baseball gods for them to win it all in Octorber!