Posted by gargi on 31 Jul 2004 | Tagged as: Uncategorized
You wouldn’t know that it was election year in the US by a comment made by a GWB campaign worker.. She said:
American workers unhappy with low-quality jobs should find new ones — or pop a Prozac to make themselves feel better.
I wonder how many votes did that comment cost?
The full story is here.
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Posted by gargi on 29 Jul 2004 | Tagged as: Uncategorized
The best way, if you are a Government, to divert attention from your fuck ups is to ensure that your armed forces is engaged outside its borders. So anyone who cribs and complains about your government can promptly be accused of being anti national. If your are a “Democracy” then you simply label the person/persons [...]
Posted by gargi on 29 Jul 2004 | Tagged as: Uncategorized
Wealth without Work
Pleasure without Conscience
Science without Humanity
Knowledge without Character
Politics without Principle
Commerce without Morality
Worship without Sacrifice
- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
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Posted by gargi on 29 Jul 2004 | Tagged as: India
Last night’s television viewing, like much of my viewing in recent days, was just the 9o clock news on NDTV.
Over dinner we saw Maninder Pal Kohli - the man accused of raping and murdering British Teenager Hannah Foster, and who was arrested after a massive search in India - confess to the killing. There seemed [...]
Posted by gargi on 28 Jul 2004 | Tagged as: India
.…. with Bhang, liquor mixed with mid-day-meals to make food tastier.
In a school in Chattisgarh,children have been fed with a mix of rice, bhang and liquor to make “the food tastier”.
I wonder if the death penalty can be administered on people who do this to the future of our nation!
Bhang: is akin to cannabis and [...]
Posted by gargi on 27 Jul 2004 | Tagged as: Uncategorized
……. is somewhere between US$500 and US$ 2500 in occupied Iraq. Yes, I know that power was “handed” over, but as long as the US Armed forces remain on Iraqi soil, with the kind of mandate that they have - Iraq will remain occupied.
In one of the most numbing articles I have read in a [...]
Posted by gargi on 27 Jul 2004 | Tagged as: Uncategorized
While Cigarette smoking can cause cancer and a host of other assorted respiratory/circulatory ailments, it seems that Nicotine - the compund that hooks you to the cancer stick, - has beneficial effects. It wards off the onset of a host of mental degenerative diseases like Alzheimers’, Parkinsons and schizophrenia. The full report is [...]
Posted by gargi on 26 Jul 2004 | Tagged as: Uncategorized
A new Toyota that can feel is here. Reports the New York Times:
Four inventors working for Toyota in Japan have won a patent for a car that they say can help drivers communicate better by glaring angrily at another car cutting through traffic as well as appear to cry, laugh, wink, or just look around. [...]
Posted by gargi on 26 Jul 2004 | Tagged as: And Finally ..., TV
Last week while going thro’ my video collection - I discovered some gems. The gemmest of the gems was the Blackadder Collection. And the pride of place of this collection goes to season 3, with amazingly rocking episodes
episode 1: Dish and Dishonesty
episode 2: Ink and Incapability
episode 3: Nob and Nobility
episode 4: Sense and Senility
episode 5: [...]
Posted by gargi on 25 Jul 2004 | Tagged as: And Finally ...
The older I get, the more I am convinced that our world is some other world’s insane asuylum - with the US being the maximum security zone.
What is this brougth on by - well a story where a gentleman agreed to help his former lover become pregnant by donating his sperm. The agreement was [...]
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