Things are getting worse for U.S. workers. The bozos at the U.S. Postal Service are preparing to fire 35,000 employees. Arguing that its massive nationwide infrastructure is no longer financially sustainable, the USPS is considering shuttering 250 processing facilities, reducing mail processing equipment by 50%, dramatically decreasing the nationwide transportation network, throwing 35,000 employees under […]
These are good times for tablet vendors. Ahem, only if your company’s name is Apple. 😉 Worldwide media tablet shipments shot up a whopping 88.9% on a sequential basis and 303.8% year over year in the second quarter of 2011 to 13.6 million units, according to market researcher IDC. Consumers eager embrace of its iPad […]
Who says unbridled, unregulated capitalism does not produce prosperity? Of course, unregulated capitalism produces prosperity. For a tiny sliver of the population – The Bankers, Lobbyists, Corporate Titans and the Politicians. As for the rest, let them eat grass. That’s what more and more Americans will be increasingly reduced to. We’ve already read reports of […]
If we’ve said it once, we’ve said it a million times. Indians love trash. Oh yeah, they just love to watch trash. Particularly, the trashy Bollywood films. Trashier the better for Indians living in America. Here’s how the new Bollywood film Mere Brother Ki Dulhan fared at the U.S. box office for the opening September […]
We’ve always considered SI readers a notch above readers of other blogs and generally above other bipeds. So, we’re conducting a simple quiz to test your General Knowledge (as it’s known in India). With sleep eluding us, we got up from bed a few minutes back, picked up a bottle of Arizona Blueberry White Tea […]
Anyone who believes in the existence of a God has a screw loose. But some nutjobs have several screws loose. Why? Because nutcases make asses of themselves with their public prayer rituals, not to mention inconveniencing the public. Last week, as we were walking around the Upper East Side of Manhattan we saw a Muslim […]