Watching Michael Moore’s Capitalism

At last the documentary we’ve been waiting for, for so long. About a dozen people in the hall. We have high hopes from this film although the New Yorker wasn’t too kind to it in its latest issue. They are showing the Previews now (Precious, The Box, Law Abiding Citizen).

Michael Moore’s Take-Down of Capitalism: Starts Oct 2

Fasten your seat-belts and sit tight, folks. You are in for one heckuva ride. Capitalism: A Love Story, numero uno documentary film-maker Michael Moore’s excoriation of capitalism, the uninhibited mammon-worshipping ideology that dictates we must devour our fellow humans, starts in theaters across the U.S. tomorrow. Moore’s past documentaries have touched on different sectors of […]

Oh, We Think We’re in Love

With Florida Congressman Alan Grayson (D), of course. Bowing to the moronic demand from House Republicans that he apologize for stating that Republicans want sick people in America to die (completely true, of course), our sweetie-pie Grayson made this classic apology yesterday: I apologize to the dead and their families that we haven’t voted sooner […]

Word of the Day – Anorchous

Bet ya a million $, bet ya a billion $ you didn’t know this word. Bet ya a gazillion $ that we are not sloshed from all the $5.49 Chardonay (on sale, of course) we’ve been quaffing for the last few hours. Now, now, come on. No fibbing here. OK, so you say you know […]

For the Desi Dunces Dreaming of Spelling Bee Crown

It’s the desi elders who dream of the Spelling Bee wreath. As they cajole their young daughters, sons or in-betweens with lusty exhortations to glory, these desis from Mayavaram and Mathura, Ranchi and Rewa, Gulbarga and Gorakhpur, Nagpur and Noida refuse to abandon the fantasy of the Spelling Bee wreath aloft the heads of their […]