Trajan was ambitious of fame; and as long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters. – Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol 1, Ch.1 P.9
(Thanks to satya for raising this issue) You can’t open Indian newspapers these days without reading about an Indian father raping his daughter. * First, it was the Mumbai businessman Kishore Chauhan, who was arrested a few weeks back for raping his two young daughters. The older girl (now 21) was raped for nine years while […]
Here comes the 18th instalment of Incredible India, with those only-in-India stories. This edition of Incredible India will focus on the travails of the female sex. Remember what you read below is merely a microcosm of what women and young girls across the country endure every day. * A father of five girls upset that […]
Why do you think change never comes in Washington and the common man always keeps getting shafted? Because most of our politicians including President Barack Obama are in bed with the big corporations that keep screwing the hardworking Americans. Big Beneficiary Let’s take Obama for instance. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, Obama received […]
Governments may come and governments may go in Pakistan. But the ISI is forever. Nothing, really nothing seems to stop Pakistan’s dreaded military intelligence agency ISI in carrying out its nefarious activities. Pakistan’s intelligence agency ISI is now assisting the Taliban in widening its operations in Southern Afghanistan, according to a story in the New York Times, which also […]
Mexico is burning. Ever since Mexican President Felipe Calderon declared a war on the drug-lords, the violence has exploded. Our insatiable demand for illegal drugs fuels the drug trade…Our inability to prevent weapons from being illegally smuggled across the border to arm these criminals causes the deaths of police officers, soldiers and civilians. – U.S. […]