Saturday, December 30, 2006

Open subject of discussion.

Do you think that in their haste to establish a democracy in Iraq, the US has made an erroneous decision in having Saddam executed, and has instead elevated him to the status of a martyr to his cause?

Saturday, December 23, 2006

Calvin: What's it like to fall in love?

Hobbes: Well... Say the object of your affection walks by...

Calvin: Yeah?

Hobbes: First, your heart falls into your stomach and splashes your innards. All the moisture makes you sweat profusely. This condensation shorts the circuits to your brain, and you get all woozy. When your brain burns out altogether, your mouth disengages and you babble like a cretin until she leaves.

Calvin: That's love?!?

Hobbes: Medically speaking.

Calvin: Heck, that happened to me once, but I figured it was cooties!

The Essential Calvin and Hobbes, p57

Monday, December 18, 2006

Woohoo!

Manu Sharma convicted.

Two down, a little more than a million to go.

P.S. This has nothing to do with the above post, but I still need to say it. A special thank you to someone who took the trouble to restore something that means a lot to me, and that I thought I'd lost forever. I owe you.

Edit: I wonder how Shayan Munshi sleeps, knowing that, by retracting his evidence when it was most needed, he let a murderer walk away unscathed.

Monday, December 11, 2006

All right, this is more like it. Ladies and gentlemen, I shall be your substitute host for this evening, since our dear Pollyanna (bless her little posting-privilege-granting heart) has recently come down with a tragic case of super boring.

In keeping with previous entries, we're still going to talk about movies though. I am not sure whether this movie has opened in India yet, we still don't have it where I am living currently, but it is called "Happy Feet" and it is about a feisty little emperor penguin that will dance his way into your heart! Or, well, something like that.


Good, bad, I don't know yet, I haven't seen it, that's not the point. The point is this: click to see youtube video.

Apparently, since the movie is about penguins and thus takes place in the Antarctic, the makers worked in a few messages about environmental awareness, specifically about global warming and the polar ice caps. And boy, some right-wing nutjobs in America are PISSED OFF about it. How dare they market "animated propaganda" to our kids, they ask? There should be a warning on the film so that parents know that their children are going to be bombarded with those sneaky environmental activist messages! After all, it's just a children's movie, and any messages indoctrinating them to this "green" point of view are wholly inappropriate and have no place in a kids' film.

Er, what? It's suddenly a bad thing now to tell a tale to children that has a moral anywhere in it? Oh, wait, only when it disagrees with how Big Industry is paying you Republican bastards to think, that's right, I forgot.

Discuss.

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Friday, December 01, 2006


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