Inanities, Bagatelles

Lying alone in a cesspool of despair He searches for a ray of hope A lone straw to cling on to But all he finds is regret And the icy claw o...

One problem with the executive lunch is that you need to strike a fine balance between holding up the conversation and stuffing your face. I...

A long time ago, in a land far away, lived a dragon in his deep, dark lair. He was an impressive dragon, as dragons go. With massive wings o...

Among other self-indulgences during my sabbatical from this blog, I have been indulging myself in a bit of football (or soccer, as it is cal...

You know it's election season in the US when you see political bumper stickers crop up on the back of cars. The 2004 election gave us a ...

Among other news, the most disturbing mental image of the year is brought to you by Mr. ManBearPig himself. The half man, half bear and hal...

BBC reports , rather gleefully, that Tehran's anti-vice police chief has been arrested after being found with six naked women in a house...

While browsing through some of the Cricket blogs of late, I chanced upon Paul Holden's Sideline Slogger . Holden, despite being a Kiwi c...

If I have a vice - and I have a few - it is that ever so often I tend to give in to sudden fits of impulse. It was one such impulse that fou...

This week, in an unprecedented spectacle of synchronized nosediving, stock markets across the world nosedived spectacularly. Almost immediat...

The Austrian Supreme Court, in its infinite wisdom, has decreed that chimpanzees, 98% shared DNA notwithstanding, cannot be deemed human. T...

Dante had it wrong. Sloth is no sin, deadly or otherwise. If anything it is a virtue. A gift. A unique trait, cultivated through centuries o...

Overheard: "Why is Michael Clarke called 'pup' by his teammates?" "Well, you know. Because he is such a sonuvabitch...

While still on the 80s, I can't but help dwell upon Vishal Patel's website . Vishal captures brilliantly the essence of growing up i...

Ah, memories! Those bittersweet remnants of a time that has been. The reminiscence of the good old days that we may never re-live, but will ...

By now you've surely heard of Gillian Gibbons and her teddy bear misadventure . It all started when Ms. Gibbons, a British teacher in Su...

For more than a mile it fell, meandering its way through clouds and fog, finally coming to rest on the windshield of my car. The first snowf...

Did you hear about this new illness recently uncovered in Tamil Nadu? It is a rare but terminal disorder brought upon by throwing stones at ...

South Africa has dropped the racial quota system for coloured players . Making the announcement, the South African sports minister Makhenkes...

The answer is forty-two . That is indisputable. However, it raises an interesting question - "What exactly is the Question?" The Q...