Say what you will, we think the Singapore government’s policy of banning bubble-gum chewing in public was a sensible move. Alas, the Indians are not half as smart as the Singaporeans, who got their Independence 18 years after the Indians. As bubble-gum sales go flat in the U.S., the MNCs have turned their sights to […]
“98.7% of the founders of important Silicon Valley companies were born in America! 99 percent are White!” – Republican commentator Ann Coulter responding to those who boast of startups founded by tech immigrants, p.239, Adios, America H1B Visas and outsourcing are undoubtedly wreaking havoc on the lives of American programmers. Only in Amazing America will […]
I’m now knowing the smell of death. They are sweet like sugarcane and rotten like palm wine. And when [dead bodies] stay in the sun, they’re growing plump like brown mangoes. – Little Agu, after witnessing one too many deaths as a child soldier Director Cary Joji Fukunaga has put out no less than a […]
Thanks to a recent issue of the New Yorker, I stumbled upon Nell Zink. After reading the New Yorker piece, I figured that if Jonathan Franzen had high regard for Nell Zink there must be something to this American writer (now living in Germany). That’s how I got to Zink’s new book Mislaid. The book […]
Steve is so hugely successful and yet he treated so many people so badly. How much of an Asshole do you have to be to be successful? – Daniel Kottke (Steve’s friend and Apple technician who accompanied him to India), quoted in the new documentary Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine As Executive Producer […]
At first, the county police officers in the French countryside think the murdered woman was stuffed inside the bovine’s stomach through its anus. Soon another dead cow surfaces on the beach with blood oozing out of its anus. This time a Black construction worker’s body parts are found inside its belly. Life goes on in […]