Is it just me or is Mike Brown, head coach of the Cleveland Cavaliers, the worst coach in the entire NBA? The Sports Guy likes to complain about Doc Rivers and Mo Cheeks and Sam Mitchell (before his Coach-of-the-Year-thanks-to-Colangelo-being-a-total-pimp award) generally figure in the conversation as well, but believe me, it isn’t even close. It’s probably [...]
Archive for May, 2007
Trying out annotations with JKN
28May07Woohoo. I just created my first annotated webpage using JKN. It’s an interview with Benny Morris, who wrote ‘The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem’, and it’s absolutely fascinating reading. My annotations aren’t too deep (half are things like ’shocking!’), but there are a few important ones, like the one at the very end. It’s [...]
Cowasjee on Pakistan’s leaders
25May07Ardeshir Cowasjee’s latest column in Dawn, ‘The maker and the shakers’ is a one-page summary of the presidents and prime ministers Pakistan has suffered since independence. Having heard Benazir Bhutto sing her father’s praises a few weeks ago here at the LSE, I was extremely interested to hear someone as blunt and (relatively) unaligned as [...]
Democracy and the US
24May07I was reading this article about Kazakhstan’s abolition of term limits on the president just now and noticed this gem: The “it” is, of course, democracy, the imposition of which has proven difficult for the United States in recent years. I didn’t have my glasses on, so on first sight I thought the author had written “the [...]
The very latest. The post I put up earlier about this is here. Someone should get fired for this.
I’m claiming this
19May07To err is human, to metaphor divine. I Google’d and didn’t find it, so I am officially claiming it. Given most people put emphasis on the second syllable in ‘metaphor’, I’m afraid it’s only going to rhyme half the time (and is therefore a half-rhyme! Thanks folks, I’ll be here all week…). (No seriously, it’s a half-rhyme…Mrs. [...]
What I want
19May07I’ve become a pretty heavy del.icio.us user (lookie-loo, my bookmarks for all to see –>). It’s wonderfully convenient having them available from any computer I’m at, and one less thing to worry about backing up; since 2000, I think I’ve lost locally stored bookmarks about 4 times. Plus, they’re tagged any way you want them, [...]
Salvador Dali is the King
12May07Was? Hmm. Slate’s awesome Today’s Pictures recently did a gallery of Dali pictures. Dali Atomicus, above, is my favourite of the ones in the gallery — absolutely striking. This is the sort of art I can appreciate: no blather about the artist’s background or influences, just switch off your brain and look. Everyone visiting London should plan [...]
If I remember right, the idea behind Chowk is to encourage dialogue and understanding between the peoples of the subcontinent (read: Indians and Pakistanis), and underline our commonalities rather than our differences. (I would confirm that, but Chowk has a remarkably useless ‘About’ page.) Anyway, the article on Shaukat Aziz’s press conference yesterday put me in [...]
Press Conference of the Year
08May07Shaukat Aziz’s latest is my nomination. Some highlights of Mr. Aziz’s comments: the Constitution allows for the option of imposing a state of national emergency ‘but its use depended on conditions and circumstances as laid down in the book’ [as reported by Dawn]. “the May 12 rally in Islamabad would be in support of the presidential reference [...]
There’s something seriously fishy going on. First of all, although we’ve been told categorically that Woolmer was murdered, police have been vacillating over how the crime was perpetrated, with everything from diabetes drugs to strangling to snake venom to weedkillers to strangling-with-a-towel suggested. This is despite an autopsy and several pathology reports. The police have [...]
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