Second season is more interesting, but, why oh why do they have to keep Kim Bauer alive. Horrible !
Anyway it has to be put on hold. There is, well, more pressing business.
Update : Thoughts on season premier. The opening sequence is snappy, love the song. John Connor cutting his hair is kind of ironic, but its significance is not clear to me. Future prospect of passionate android love is awesome, made even more awesome by the fact that android is fetching Summer Glau.
from this same re-occurring nightmare
Update: Open challenge. You know it is great that we have great patriots like Shri Manmohan Singh and Shri Shivraj Patil to protect this nation. Surely terrorists must be wetting their pants by the strongly worded condemnation.
Update 1: RC writes, terror should be politicized. Will that do the trick ? May be, who knows. I am afraid that our polity is irreversibly fractured. I doubt that Republic of India will be there in the next century.
Update 2: Call me crazy, but how long before Secularists ask Modi/Togadia/Advani to be hanged, to you know, address grievance of Indian Muslims.
Update 3: You know what has changed. After IM, no more crowing about we don't have Al-Qaeda in India. Of course, it is sad that it took so many innocent lives for secularists to shut up.
Update 4: Also, how long before secular media publishes report of police harassing Muslims, followed by "intellectuals" rallying to decry assault on secularism.
Update 5: Just wanted to ask this. Is Eminent Douchebag guest blogging at Fallen One's place. What else, can explain this nonsense. I mean what next, Satyagraha against power cuts, against bad roads. Hey Bhagwan !
Update 6: Also to answer what RC wrote, I don' think politicization is the answer. The reasoning remains same as in this post which was my take on his previous posts.
Here is the scenario,
You are in a group, comprising of, a renowned scientist, a beautiful but superficial actor, a capable and well respected politician statesman, an altruist, and last a good for nothing, filthy, adulterous, petty, in other words a well rounded asshole, truck driver who has been nothing failure.
Now by a series of unfortunate circumstances you find your group captured by highly intelligent tribe with a bad attitude (how bad ? Scotland bad ), who because they have bad attitude, want to sacrifice one of you.
Now here is what you have to do, assuming any one of the characters, make a case before the tribe why you should be spared.
Finally it is here! Trailer below.
PS. It better be good. I hope it kicks Bourne Series and Sin City ass.
Update: Why Wahlberg though, he is eye candy. I think it would have been more appropriate to have some brooding type, may be this guy.
Jug Suraiya (who else) concludes at the end of a long article detailing Indian submissiveness to China.
The real reason, the real threat we face from China, is far more insidious than that represented by nuclear weapons, or FDI figures, or global market shares. It is that — with its monolithic, single-minded pursuit of success at all costs, human or material — China makes us apologetic and ashamed of what is, and ought to be, our most prized advantage over the Middle Kingdom: our democracy. Ragged, half-starved, flood-battered, riot-scarred but nonetheless democracy, not the jackboot of dictatorship. Our democracy ought to be our biggest pride. China threatens to make it our shame. That — and not nuclear deals or Security Council seats — is the real challenge of the Chinese dragon. How ready are we to face it?
Now that we are going to cease to exist due to collapse of space time continuum brought to you by scientists with too much grant and no social life to spend it on drinking binges, I want to tell you that I really really love you all, even though, frankly speaking, you are all idiots and morons.
Update: You know what this means! No more India Uncut either. Well, I will call it reasonable bargain, though I have a sneaking suspicion that there must be some better way than to destroy the cosmos. Also before we cease to exist, someone please ask goat lover to take a bath.
Update 1: Fantastic! More doomsday scenarios (via comments thanks to jobless Sriram).
Of South Asian identity politics* buffoonery and narcissist assholery of middle class.
Ladies and gentlemen, mark this as a new low.
* This is not to say that there is anything unenviable about any identity politics.
