If you schmucks thought all that Americans do is get their breasts augmented, penises enlarged and skins tanned, you’d be so wrong. Americans have a different obsession – online videos. In April alone, Americans watched 16.8 billion online videos, an increase of 16% over the prior month. Must be something in the water here. Because […]
If you have spent long years in the U.S., you are bound to have encountered young Mormon kids. They are the impeccably dressed young boys with the Bible in their hands, who come knocking on your door to spread the word of Christ, i.e the version of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. […]
A white New York City policeman shot and killed a black policeman as he was chasing a suspect (likely Hispanic going by the name) in the predominantly Hispanic Manhattan neighborhood of East Harlem last night. Both NYPD cops were in plainclothes. It’s not known if the white cop identified himself as a cop before shooting […]
Kavya Shivashankar is winner of the Scripps Spelling Bee 2009 championship making it the second year in a row that a desi kid has been crowned the top speller of America (Sameer Mishra won the title last year). The winning word was Laodicean, meaning lukewarm or indifferent. Besides the Spelling Bee 2009 cup, Kavya took […]
Indian-American Aishwarya Pastapur (a Gulbarga girl) is out of the Spelling Bee 2009 finals. Menhir was the word that tripped Aishwarya. Aishwarya Pastapur (Image: Spelling Bee) Here’s Aishwarya’s bio from the Bee site: Aishwarya, a voracious reader and dedicated student, has
Anamika Veeramani is 2010 Spelling Bee Champion Tamil ponnu (girl) Anamika Veeramani is out of the Spelling Bee 2009 finals. Anamika was clean bowled by the word fackeltanz. Anamika Veeramani (Image: Spelling Bee) * Speller No. 201, Anamika Veeramani Age, Grade: 13, Seventh Grade School: Incarnate Word Academy, Parma Heights, Ohio Sponsor: The Plain Dealer, […]