Barack Obama: “Yes, we can!”
Hillary Clinton: “Yes, we scam!”
(Wow, this is becoming some kind of a feature! Here is Politics, in four words)
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The IHT’s David Brooks on why Hillary Clinton insists on protracting the primary season.
For nearly 20 years, she has been encased in the apparatus of political celebrity. Look at her schedule as first lady and ever since. Think of the thousands of staged events, the tens of thousands of times she has pretended to be […]
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I remember reading a long time ago an article in “Word Power” titled Classroom Classics. The author lists some of the schoolboy howlers that make grading exam papers fun. After all, don’t they say English is a funny language?
Here is a sampling:
An unmarried woman is known as a sinister
A hamlet is a little pig.
The equator […]
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Rafael Benitez, the Liverpool manager, said earlier this week that Javier Mascherano was the new Roy Keane. In attempting to live up to his manager’s expectations, the Argentinian failed rather badly, by evoking only the bad side of the former United captain. Mascherano got himself sent off in the first half.
Liverpool fans would have you […]
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Supporters of Hillary Clinton: “Help Hillary make history!”
Supporters of Barack Obama: “Help make Hillary history!”
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Watched The Pursuit of Happyness over the weekend. An inspiring movie, worth watching once over. I thought the kid who acted as Will Smith’s son did a superb job. Will Smith himself was excellent.
Here is a scene I loved. Will Smith, who is without a job and struggling to get by, tells his son that […]
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To most people outside Sicily, the word mafia is almost synonymous with the place. So it is no doubt that a tourist guide, fed up with answering common questions about the mafia has come up with a 55-page pocket book to help himself and the tourists.
A Sicilian tour guide who got fed up with […]
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(Warning: Ego post!)
… adds the PMP to his name.
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Last week, I had ended a post looking forward to the Champions League draws by predicting that United could draw Roma again in the quarterfinals of the Champions League this year. And that this would settle all doubts about whether the draws are doctored. Surely now, this confirms everything.
The pick of the draw though is […]
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Jug Suraiya writes in The Times of India that it was the criminalization of drugs that killed British teenager Scarlett Keeling in Goa, and then puts forth an almost passionate plea to legalize drugs. He bases his arguments on two contentions (or facts). First, that drugs are less of a health hazard than cigarettes or […]
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Should an effing $10 million or thereabouts (some say it could easily be $30 million) be wasted to conduct Democratic primaries again in Michigan and Florida in order to undo their flagrant violation of rules? Bu115#!+
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Listening to the Mozhi soundtrack after a while. I still am amazed by the movie and the songs. Wah! A piece of art that just could do no wrong.
And pray don’t tell me there was a better song in 2007 than this.
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Governor Eliot Spitzer’s downfall is not because he was involved in a prostitution ring. The technical details of the case aside, the real reason the New York Governor has his head under the guillotine is because he took the high moral ground so often in the past, and this has come to haunt him. (Maybe […]
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Of all the many beautiful songs of 2007, this one from Saththam Podaathey is probably the most haunting; even when taken out of context.
pesugiren pesugiren un idhayam pesugiren
puyal adithaal kalangaadhu naan pookkal neettukiren
edhai nee tholaiththaalum manadhai tholaikkaadhe
adangaamale alai paayvadhen? manam allavaa…
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The pain of enduring Portsmouth knock United out of the FA Cup was allayed by watching Barnsley dump Chelsea out of the competition a few hours later. But it was joy unbounded today as Wigan held Arsenal to a draw, so United retake the League by battering the Rams next weekend!
Portsmouth can now be called […]
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This is a video about a USB plug-and-play virus that targets Apple Macs. Must confess that even the viruses for the Mac are so cool
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This is another piece of great news from Google. Their calendar app, which I have found very useful, can now sync with Outlook. I had sent this in as a feature request some time ago (I guess many others would have done so too), and am glad to see it has been implemented.
The most recent […]
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A real good one, combining visuals from The Matrix, with audio from Sivaji’s trailer. Thanks Eshwar for the link.
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Our problem is that, instead of feeling bad about and working to redeem ourselves, we celebrate our faults.
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For the second successive year, English teams are meeting with increased success in the UEFA Champions League. United, Arsenal and Chelsea are through already to the quarterfinals, and Liverpool look set to join them in a week’s time.
While English football, in general, is moving from one crisis to another (the national side’s poor form, a […]
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