The Great Ganesha

Stephanie Coontz tests your knowledge on marriage, its history and perceptions of society to marriage in the western world. Take a look – you’ll be surprised. Or maybe not… On the NYT Op-Ed page yesterday.

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A very interesting article by Andrew Keen about how “Web 2.0″ – the idea that the new internet is now all about empowering people by letting them express themselves through blogs, etc. – is like Marx’s version of communism. By seducing people to be writers in the morning, musicians in the afternoon and film directors [...]

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This is what the Gawker had to say about Cheney’s shooting: In order to keep Harry Whittington’s body from succumbing to the shotgun injuries inflicted upon him by its master, Vice President Dick Cheney’s demonic wraith today left his own body and entered the body of Mr Whittington in order to keep it in a [...]

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Did you guys see the In DC blog yesterday? This is hilarious…

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An opposition party member has accused a Congress (party in power) party member of burning currency – which is a punishable (up to 5 years) offence in India. But the Congress party member was doing a magic trick! Mr Rao [the magician] said the paper that was burned was not a banknote. Mr Chary [the [...]

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So Cheney shot someone. And they waited almost a whole day before telling everyone. If it hadn’t leaked through the locals, we may never have known. Of course, the liberals are having a field-day with it. But I think the best response was from the Daily Show’s “Vice-President Firearms Mishap Analyst,” Rob Corddry… Stewart: Rob, [...]

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If you want to save some money this year, try being erudite with your girlfriend. Quote something from the LA Times editorial page: EDITORIAL Massacre Valentine’s Day ST. VALENTINE WAS SUPPOSEDLY a martyred 3rd century priest, not a shill for the flower industry or a marketing genius for a certain Kansas City, Mo., greeting-card titan. [...]

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So this was posted on a pretty well-known university’s Chinese student listserv (it’s genuine). ——– Original Message ——– Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 07:40:44 -0800 Sender: Chinese Community Communication List From: [sender deleted] Subject: immigration law my Taiwanese friend is looking for good Chinese speaking immigration lawyer. Can you recommend one? Harmless enough, in and [...]

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Interesting article from a couple of days ago by Tunku Varadarajan in the WSJ (read: conservative). In spite of the overt right-leaning, I think I agree with him. Political correctness has gone too far, crossing over into sectarian politicking… On Tuesday, Antonio Villaraigosa, the Democratic alcalde (or mayor) of Los Angeles, delivered to his city [...]

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From the title of this blog, it should be apparent what this is about: Intellectual Masturbation. By which I mean, it’s really no different from other blogs. Just that it has a name with masturbation in it…

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