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happen to read his eminence's latest. And I thought he couldn't get any worse, sadly I was wrong.

Update: Just in case you are some kind of freak who loves to be miserable here is the article in question. Read. Weep.

The One With Nomination

This blog proudly nominates Steve Buckner for Nobel or some big prize for defeating Indian team.
I am optimistic that with the help of such stalwarts, we would be able to get rid of abomination called Cricket.

I hate Cricket

The One With Endorsement

This blog proudly endorses regular commentator Sriram as official dirty man of this blog.
Please keep all your daughters and donuts out of his reach.
Thank you.

Agent Of Status Quo

In middle of Sullivan-Goldberg love fest, Goldberg gives an insightful definition of conservatism.

Oakeshott was a brilliant advocate for a small-c conservatism of temperament, one that placed trust in institutions, trial-and-error, and muddling-through without iron-clad dogma.

Conscience is important, but conscience must be informed — not dictated to — by institutions, religion, tradition, and, of course, reason.

Of course it is irrelevant to India where every party including BJP aspires for some shade of socialism.

I just want to say...

Obama reminds me of change consultant *. Anyhow I think that Obama is going to be the next second black president of Amreeka.

* Yes Frogji Dilbert reference.

Update 1: Is Huckabee going to be Republican nominee ? Did Giuliani (and McCain) overplay the hand ? I don't know the answer, however rise of preacher is the stuff political lores are made up of.

Update 2: Ewww, makes me feel dirty (via). Plus, the question "who will win in a fight between The Preacher and Captain Platitude", answered (via).

Update 3: Oh Daahling ! Seems I was wrong, Change is the new black in Amreeka. To be frank I am getting sick of this, I hate change ! I say screw change, what was good for Bhagwan Rama is good for me.

Tap Dancing

Ravikiran explains Hindu rate of growth as a bad pun gone horribly wrong.

Now I knew beforehand what secular rate of growth means, basically some trend like thingy (thanks to interwebs), but it doesn't really prove anything.

For one still there is little matter of how "Hindu" is not the first word which comes to mind when one is looking for antonyms of "secular", even during the Nehruvian era. Of course it would be a different matter altogether, if Ravikiran had evidence for the usage, but somehow knowing him I doubt he has any, for this is not his usual but cartelspeak.

Also there are references galore* which indicate that Hindu rate of growth had negative connotations**, which had to do with historical western perspective of Hindus as fatalist, meek and passive. Of course he would call it paranoia of a Hindutvavadi ***(that is moi), I could have asked him to verify with JK or Mr Dey, only thing I suspect for Ravi both JK and Mr Dey would be Hindutvavadis. Of course for Ravi googling is probably a back breaking task.

Ultimately it comes to this, Ravi has nothing to support his conjecture that Raj Krishna was a poor misunderstool soul who was just having, you know, a bit of fun, but somehow not only he was incompetent enough to not find the correct antonym (which is communal or probably sectarian, for those who didn't study in KV ), but also unfortunate enough to tap into a well established negative stereotype of Hindus for his little joke.

Hmmm, I don't know, but to me it smell like ...... Crap ??

Now reverse the situation, can you imagine how he would have acted if someone else, suppose Shivam or Big Boob was doing this tap dance, how Ravi would have responded ? I don't think there is any need to imagine. So it is seen that Ravi is doing the spinning, but it is us Hindutvavadis who are conspiracy theorists. Well what can I say, Ravi is an honorable man.

Dear Ravi, what gives ?

PS When one gets dizzy from the spinning, one starts vomiting snarks with no point.

PPS . Of course to keep things in perspective, he has said in the past that Raj followed free trade Well ! To paraphrase what Nietzsche said about Christians, in cartelian creed, ideology never came into contact with history at any point.

PPPS This post explain my fundamental distrust of "Indian" libertarians, they are basically intelligent and articulate guys, but they are enslaved to the dogma. And just to clarify I wouldn't have written this if it were His Eminence or Desi John Galt who were being snarky, they are hopeless cases, I expect better from Ravi than this drivel.

* Speaking of galore, which is the best bond movie ever. I am going to download it.

** Of course there is a simple explanation wiki has been hijacked by Hindutvavadis. And yet it is us who are paranoid, not Ravi. Projection anyone ? By the way how come Indian embassy in Russia is also peddling this great Hindutvavadi deception ? O overlord you magnificent bastard person of unknown parentage !

*** Properly speaking I think we should differentiate between "Hindutva" and "hindutva", former being the ideology proposed by Veer Savarkar. I have not read Savarkar, so I really don't know whether I am Hindutvavaadi or not.

My New Year Resolution

1. I am going to punch idiots who squeeze my arms, seriously stop doing it now, it is inexcusably gay.

2. I am going to punch idiots who whine about kids. Look I can understand your suffering, but do you really have to make others suffer by your vomiting.

3. I am going to punch idiots who use smilies in political discussion. Seriously what's wrong with them !

I already feel better.