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This is quite the headline of the day: Dhoni’s dream of owning 9mm pistol coming true I especially like…
Because you can’t throw cows at the police. Ok? (Link via separate emails from Salil and Deepak.)
Right—I’ve finalized a publisher. I’m pleased to announce that my first novel, My Friend, Sancho, will be published by…
Long, long ago, my good friend Aftab wrote about the Amartya Sen Fallacy, which he illustrated with the following…
On an email group I’m part of, Roswitha writes that the recent New York Times hoax reminded her of…
04 August, 2008
Where Your Taxes Go: 36
On a state funeral for a dead singer.
Ishmeet Singh’s death might be a tragedy for his family and his fans, but I don’t see why people who do not fall in either of those categories should have to pay for his funeral—and that chartered flight carrying his body from Ludhiana to New Delhi at taxpayers’ expense. If Parkash Singh Badal feels that Ishmeet deserves a grand funeral, then Parkash Singh Badal should pay for it out of his own pocket. That goes for everyone else who holds that opinion as well. Why should the taxpayer pay?
Yes, yes, Badal is obviously just making a populist gesture here. And it will work, because the people who praise him for it won’t figure that it is their money he is spending. Such it goes…
(For more on how our government loots us, check out my Taxes Archive.)
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100 funny and unusual 404 error pages.
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The places we live
Jonas Bendiksen takes us on a journey from Bombay to Nairobi to Caracas and Jakarta.
By Sanjeev Naik in The visual arts
New York Cricket Club
Netherland is an Indian novel accidentally written by an Irishman
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The Desperate Passion of Ben Foster
Method acting meets controlled staginess in 3:10 to Yuma
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#106 - Generalissimo 76
Sample clues
9 across: Van Morrison classic from Moondance (7)
6 down: Order beginning with ‘A’ (12)
