November 2005

The Archives

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  Win20

  11.25.05 | Permalink | Comment?

  Happy 20th, Windows! “The system requirements for Windows 1.0 were 256KB of RAM, DOS 2.0 and two floppy drives.”

• holydays

  Flu

  11.23.05 | Permalink | 12 Comments

  I am miserable. Is it bird? Is it superman? All I know is that I don’t enjoy breathing through my gills. Used to be that Abba gee would recommend Hamdard’s Joshanda. But then, he recommended Joshanda for everything - including broken bones and hurt egos. I hated that stuff. It left this slimy after-taste. Usually [...]

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  Scott Stantis

  11.23.05 | Permalink | Comment?

  Obtuse political satire as hateful wingnuttery.

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  Jolie Good 2

  11.22.05 | Permalink | Comment?

  JoPitt will visit Pakistan; dressed in azure-blue shalwar and a white kurta, no less.

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  Misnomer

  11.22.05 | Permalink | Comment?

  What are they still calling him a ‘Dirty Bomb’ Padilla for?

• homistan

  Injustices

  11.21.05 | Permalink | Comment?

  I want to draw your attention to two cases that share nothing except your sense of outrage. In one case, there is little you can do. In the other case, there is a lot you can do. Let’s take the one where your agency counts, first.
  I know that the hip thing is to talk about [...]

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  Umps Suck

  11.21.05 | Permalink | Comment?

  An Affront to Cricket.

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  White Flight

  11.19.05 | Permalink | Comment?

  “The two schools, put another way that parents rarely articulate so bluntly, are too Asian”.

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  Pledge R Us

  11.19.05 | Permalink | Comment?

  $5.8 billion pledged for Pakistan. “General Musharraf promised accountability as the money is spent”. Righhht.

• imperial watch

  They

  11.18.05 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  When the late-night comedians of 2021 reach for a Bush joke [and forward then, there will only be one Bush president in memory], the punchline must be the us/them, here/there world that Bush has created. After all, to that future post-identity world, speaking SinHinglish and typing with their hyper-muscled eyelids, such crass ethnic and ideological [...]