Quote of the Day – Maud Power
In the East none but Europeans and native princes seem well fed. – Irish writer Maud Power in Wayside Story (Maud’s 1905 travelogue based on her travels in India. Published by Downey and Co in 1907), P.56
Incredible India 57 – Counterfeit Corpses in Bombay
People outside India are often dumbstruck to learn that millions of poor souls sleep on the pavement in India’s commercial capital Bombay (now renamed Mumbai) night after night after night. But things have been like that in Bombay for well over a 100 years. As darkness shrouds the city and the haves gather into their […]
Unstoppable Review – Awesome
A missile the size of the Chrysler building (in NYC) carrying deadly, highly combustible chemicals is hurtling down the track at 70mph toward highly populated areas. What you gonna do now? As one of the characters laments: Too much train traveling too fast. Blessed by the Lord Yipee, the Gods finally smiled on us last […]
Quote of the Day – Tony Judt
But “the market”—like “dialectical materialism”—is just an abstraction: at once ultra-rational (its argument trumps all) and the acme of unreason (it is not open to question). It has its true believers—mediocre thinkers by contrast with the founding fathers, but influential withal; its fellow travelers—who may privately doubt the claims of the dogma but see no […]
The Bourne Legacy Review – Mediocre Shit
Back in the old days, when we were in the spring of our lives we greatly enjoyed Robert Ludlum’s books. We read most if not all his spy thrillers. If memory serves us right, the Chancellor Manuscript was our first Ludlum thriller, a novel we picked up sometime in the 1970s from a neighborhood circulating […]
Incredible India’s Hot New Export – Superbug
Of course, where there are Indians there’s bound to be something weird lurking in the background. Isn’t that why we call the country Incredible India. 😉 Sui Generis Exports When it comes to exports, you can’t beat Indians. You see, India has always been very aggressive and at the front of the line. No matter, […]