SI Reads Quran 4 – Allah, Spiritual Father of Stalin

Statutory Warning: All Religions are Equally Stupid Heaven forbid that Islam should ever extend its sway beyond the religion’s present borders and take the reins of power in new territories. After reading six Suras and nearly a 100 pages of the Quran, it’s safe to predict that should Islam spread its tentacles to more countries […]

SI Reads Quran -3; Allah No Bra-Burning Feminist

Statutory Warning: All Religions are Equally Stupid Defenders of Islam and its holy book Quran often seek to rebut charges of severe treatment of Muslim women by pointing to the book’s liberal divorce provisions for women, sanction for widow remarriage, Allah’s denunciations of harsh treatment of the fair sex et al. Well, that defense certainly […]

Bangkok 8 Review – Wild Yaa Baa Ride

What a shame that all ye half-wit natives read little besides the gin-soaked ramblings on these pages. If you did, you’d realize what an exhilarating Yaa Baa ride John Burdett’s Bangkok 8 turns out to be. (Yaa Baa, or Bhul Bhuliya for the uninformed desi dummkopfs, is the  ‘mad drug,’ the potent methamphetamine favored by the […]

Consumer Reports’ Top LCD & Plasma TVs

We don’t know how folks in India go about buying big-ticket consumer electronics items. But in the U.S. consumers rely a lot on reviews conducted by independent third parties or posted by previous buyers (who are hopefully more knowledgeable than you and are not shills for the products). Of all the third party reviews, the […]

Tamil Padam – Surfeit of Gags, Few LOL Moments

(by SI blog reader Racer44) Well folks, a spoof movie (that is, a proper one, not a bits-and-pieces-spoof, most-parts-torture movie like Goa) finally makes its way to Tamil cinema. To some, that ought to be reason enough to go watch this film. And I wouldn’t stand in their way. Compared to the unwatchable tripe trotted […]

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