So you thought George W.Bush was an idiot. Boy, you ain’t seen idiot until you see John McCain’s VP running mate and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. Fox News (a news channel friendly to Republicans) has been reporting that during debate preparations Sarah Palin did not know that Africa was a continent. We swear we are not making this up. […]
Cars are a curse, the spawn of the Devil himself. Cars are not liberating but incredibly suffocating. After the stress of driving several lakh KM over many years, you have no idea of how much schadenfreude we derive from the current dismal state of the auto industry. To say that GM, Ford and Chrysler are […]
Concerned about the impact on those lucrative outsourcing contracts from the U.S., Indian CEOs are likely peeing in their trousers following Barack Obama’s victory in the U.S. Presidential polls. This is what Infosys co-founder and Chief Mentor N.R.Narayana Murthy had to say: We believe Obama to be a pragmatic leader who understands that American industry […]
We view the recent protests, hunger strikes and other such nonsense by Tamil film stars and other sections in Tamil Nadu on behalf of the Tamils in Sri Lanka as nothing more than a veiled effort and a ruse to give the terrorist outfit LTTE time to recoup their strength after their severe battering by […]
We’re great fans of the irrreverent talk show host Bill Maher. As we were channel-flipping a few minutes ago, we were delighted to see Bill Maher being interviewed by Mike Huckabee on Fox News (of all channels, who’d have thought). Here’s an excerpt from the interview: Human beings are tribal by nature and religion makes […]
The Times of India is reporting that 9/11 mastermind Osama Bin Laden is now writing his memoirs. Here’s an excerpt from the Times of India story: World’s most wanted fugitive, al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden is reportedly writing a book on the struggle of his terrorist network that dispenses money, logistical support and training to […]