(Recommended by SI reader mihi_rex and slammed by jay) Just returned from Blockbuster. Picked up the Heat Special Edition DVD (two discs). Written and directed by Michael Mann (remember Collateral and Miami Vice), Heat features two of our favorite actors – Robert De Niro and Al Pacino. The movie debuted on December 15, 1995. According […]
After years of importing tens of thousands of foreign workers of Japanese descent from Latin American countries like Brazil and Peru for blue-collar jobs, Japan is now doing an U-turn on its immigration policy. An U-turn that America must seriously consider (but only partially) vis-a-vis its H1B Visas. Facing growing unemployment of its own citizens […]
Hus ke liye hai Pakistan, ladh ke lenge Hindustan (We achieved Pakistan laughing; we will take India fighting) – Pakistani Soldiers, sometime in the early 1960s around the time of the 1965 Indo-Pak war (cited in Ramachandra Guha’s India After Gandhi P.401) Fast forward 44 years Pakistan is on the verge of collapse as a failed […]
First it was the H1B software coolies that began screwing American workers (thanks to greedy U.S. corporations). Now, the down-on-their-luck American workers are being bitch slapped by other things Indian. The New York Times has an interesting article today on how Indian steel pipes are being used in an oil pipeline project in Granite City, […]
Now, now before y’all politically correct folks get your knickers in a twist, the above headline is borrowed from a scene in Chris Rock: Kill the Messenger. We just watched the DVD (thank you, RedBox). A HBO presentation, the DVD features Black comedian Chris Rock’s live performances in Johannesburg, London and New York City. This […]
Notorious Indian IT crook Satyam Computer Services’ new board has picked Tech Mahindra as the highest bidder to acquire a controlling stake in Satyam. Tech Mahindra bid Rs 58 per share and will pay $351 million (Rs 1,756 crore) for an initial 31% stake in the company. Tech Mahindra must also make a cash offer to […]