[This is a long post, I warn you. It is a faithful reproduction of an essay by J.B. Priestley. I am posting it here despite being fully aware that it is open to controversial interpretations. My own reading of it is very different from what I expect a cursory reader to gather from it. Before [...]
Yesterday, Slashdot linked to an interesting article about a teenager and her mother suing MySpace.com, a social networking site for $30 million.The complaint: that the website had failed to protect her (the teenager) from a sexual predator who molested her on their first date. More than the article itself, the comments which follow it provide [...]
Last week, one of my cousins (so close, that he is more a brother than a cousin) got married. This is probably the first marriage in the family which I have observed from close quarters. There are many who say that cinema and sport best reflect the culture of a people. I pity them, for [...]
Alan has listed the French equivalents of some common footballing terms. The one term he seems to have missed is le problème – the problem with French football. World Cup winners in 1998. European Champions in 2000. Knocked out of the first round in the 2002 World Cup! Toothless in Euro 2004. And a tame [...]
Headlines Today should immediately be conferred with India’s silliest news channel award. While every other news channel is analysing Argentina’s rout of Serbia & Montenegro, and van Persie’s wonderstrike against Ivory Coast, HT sent one of its reporters to spend time with a tarot expert.The tarot woman was so much fun. Reporter: “What does the [...]
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