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One of the reasons why posting has been slack over the last few months is my new found narcissism. I joined a gym three months ago and have been reaping the benefits of the body beautiful. Working out is fun, but it takes time. And the time it’s taken is generally from my blog quota. […]

Thomas Sowell looks back on April 2004. Here are some of the gems:
The older I get, the more I realize that arguing on the basis of facts and logic only gets you labeled as someone who is out of step with the times, if not lacking in “compassion.”
Many disastrous mistakes, in both public and private […]

One of my main objectives on this blog is to change mindsets from the old “mai-baap sarkar” where life without government is unimaginable to a truly free society with self-government. It’s a daunting task because self-government is often equated with chaos and various other evils. So, I consider myself happy whenever someone agrees that there […]

Michael Totten made what is possibly the smartest new year resolution I’ve heard of. I’m following suit.

JK thoroughly fisks our very own Resident Idiot.
Like me, are you wondering what happened to our old favorite — the globaliser of dissent — Arundhati Roy? Well, wonder no more. She’s most probably preparing for another world. Not what you thought ;-) just the mela called the World Social Forum.

Indians routinely say “alphabets” when they mean letters. Most of us don’t even know that an alphabet is the complete collection of letters of a language. Besides, this mistake is uniquely Indian. (Perhaps Pakistanis, Bangladeshis and Nepalis also make the mistake, but let us leave that aside for a moment.) I once remarked to a […]

The Department of Philosophy at the Univ. Of Mumbai, snagged Dr. Peter Koslowski to give a couple of lectures for them, the first one was on “The EU and the end of the association of the Nation and the State”. A very promising topic indeed.

He started out by talking about the origins of the modern […]

Is there a contradiction between the right to life and the death penalty? Can a society have both?
I think the two are not incompatible. There are certain criminal acts whose punishment should be a revokation of the rights of the criminal. That’s the reason why we jail thieves and kidnappers. If you violate someone else’s […]

The second part of the story. Note, it’s a forward, and the “I” is the person who sent this email, not me. Comments on Alter Ego - yazad
Most people might choose to divert the course of the train, and sacrifice only one child. You might think the same way, I guess.
Exactly, I thought the same […]

A group of children were playing near two railway tracks, one still in use while the other disused. Only one child played on the disused track, the rest on the operational track. The train came, and you were just beside the track interchange.
You could make the train change its course to the disused track […]

Love your coffee but don’t want the caffeine with it? Decaf may not not the best solution as the solvents removing the caffeine also remove other chemicals which contribute to the flavour. A good project for out-of-the-box thinking. How about programming the coffee bean to stop making the caffeine altogether?
Not science fiction. Science fact. Dr. […]