22 May, 2007

Religious Growth

Foreign Policy reports that four out of the six fastest growing religions are directly attributable to high birth rates in India. 

Posted by Gautam in Miscellaneous | Politics at 11:08 AM

12 May, 2007

Al Gore for VP

Eric Schulman, who statistically predicted the 2004 U.S. Presidential election, now predicts leading candidates for 2008.

Posted by Sanjeev Naik in Politics at 12:32 AM

01 May, 2007

Barack Obama: The Conciliator

Do read this excellent profile in the New Yorker by Larissa MacFarquhar.

Posted by Amit Varma in Politics at 1:06 AM

21 April, 2007

US Government, Outsourced

Scott Adams wants to outsource the US government to India. 

Posted by Gaurav Mishra in Politics at 12:42 AM

20 April, 2007

Politics and tragedy

This is superb satire. (Via email from Ravikiran.)

Posted by Amit Varma in Politics at 5:43 PM

05 April, 2007

Nationalism

You cannot get more patriotic than this. (Via email from Joby Joseph.)

Posted by Amit Varma in Politics at 5:49 PM

02 April, 2007

We The Educated and God

Makes you wonder. Exactly, what effect does a college education have? 

Posted by Arzan Sam Wadia in Politics at 9:31 PM

24 March, 2007

The Internet is Not a Big Truck…

... it’s a series of tubes. A totally over-the-top techno version of US senator Ted Stevens’s now infamous “series of tubes” speech.

Posted by Gaurav Mishra in Politics | Science and technology at 9:26 PM

21 March, 2007

Incarceration Rates

It might surprise you to know that India has one of the lowest incarceration rates. I wonder why…

Posted by Gautam in Miscellaneous | Politics at 10:21 AM

10 March, 2007

Pluto back in the game

...at least in New Mexico. Why? Because lawmakers there believe anything that “passes over their excellent skies deserves to be declared a planet.”

Posted by Patrix in Politics at 1:37 PM

05 March, 2007

Hey! Don’t tell anybody…

...but we are tapping your phone. The NSA messes up, and needs to pay the bill.

Posted by Ravages in Politics at 9:13 PM

28 February, 2007

Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth?

Now that we have labeled Al Gore as a hypocrite, I guess we don’t have to worry about global warming any more. Bah!

Posted by Patrix in Politics at 10:34 PM

Laura Welch…

...apparently ran a red light, had an accident and killed her ex/boyfriend. She’s now Mrs. Laura Bush. A pinch of salt is advised. 

Posted by Gautam in Miscellaneous | Oddball | Politics at 9:55 AM

27 February, 2007

Hell - too good for some evil bastards

That’s from a controversial ad in NZ with a picture of this guy, who apparently wanted to do this to this guy. If only he could catch him!

Posted by Sanjeev Naik in Oddball | Politics at 10:48 PM

26 February, 2007

A flat earth, after all.

Tom Tomorrow, on this Modern World and about scientists, liberals and Dubya. 

Posted by Ravages in Politics | Science and technology at 1:13 PM

An Inconvenient Truth…

...wins the Oscars. Awesome.

Posted by Arzan Sam Wadia in Economics | Politics | Science and technology at 10:44 AM

25 February, 2007

Good bye anonymous19@yahoo.com.

Europe’s getting ready to restrict internet users, especially how one signs up for an email address. (via Wired)

Posted by Ravages in Politics at 9:54 AM

23 February, 2007

Washington’s Birthday is not Washington’s birthday

Really, now.

Posted by Amit Varma in Politics at 6:11 PM

22 February, 2007

Judicial activism

Adrants points to a story in which the Supreme Court of Alabama allows the sale of guns, but not the sale of sex toys.

Posted by Ravages in Politics at 8:59 PM

An enemy of big government?

Here’s Phil Gramm on John McCain. Hmmm…

Posted by Amit Varma in Politics at 6:02 PM

21 February, 2007

Naxalbari Zindabad?

Manish Vij brings us some images from JNU. They’re beyond parody, these jokers.

Posted by Amit Varma in Politics at 1:40 PM

20 February, 2007

“A long wishlist of spending pledges”

The Economist is not too impressed with Segolene Royal. Neither am I. She sounds just like Prakash Karat!

Posted by Amit Varma in Economics | Politics at 2:59 PM

19 February, 2007

Greens vs. Unions

No, not the Green Party, a salad bar takes on unions. 

Posted by Gautam in Politics at 9:36 AM

17 February, 2007

Big brother goes global

The US government wants to regulate a Japanese TV commercial. I am speechless.

Posted by Ravages in Politics at 8:36 PM

Make Money…

...not war. Unfortunately, this money is made to wage war.  Or so it’s claimed. 

Posted by Gautam in Politics at 10:16 AM

The US presidential elections

"Next to sumo, this is the greatest spectator sport on earth.”—Warren Ellis. (Via email from Aadisht.)

Posted by Amit Varma in Politics at 1:20 AM

16 February, 2007

Russia, the gay friendly country

Oh those progressive Russians… they want to stop gays from even congregating.

Posted by MadMan in Politics at 8:35 PM