Archive for March, 2009

Statistics and basketball

28Mar09

I hate how people are trying to apply statistics to basketball, like it’s some voodoo that could potentially unlock all sorts of answers and reduce the sport to a science. It’s a ridiculous, depressing and self-defeating (for sports fans, anyway) thing to do. The pompous proponents of this mentality are correct in arguing that there [...]

The cynic in me…

18Mar09

…smirks that while we celebrate the birth of real democracy in Pakistan, the Pakistani people are already so thoroughly drenched in the gooey residue of their success that they don’t recognise the CJP is already installed in their minds as the next in the long line of saviours to whom we periodically hand over our [...]