It takes the skin of five Australian marine crocodiles ($1,000 for each skin) to make the most expensive handbag in Tod’s catalog. Price of handbag – $10,000, according to the Sunday New York Times, October 10, 2010, Business Section P.7.
Many of us are conditioned or wont to think of terrorists as unschooled baboons or idiots brainwashed into following their leaders’ bidding. Not so. Not so. The New York Times Magazine had an interesting piece yesterday which argues that: [I]n the ranks of captured and confessed terrorists, engineers and engineering students are significantly overrepresented.
We purchased a brand new copy of the 18th edition of Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase & Fable on eBay recently for $9.63 (plus shipping) and are trying to squeeze our money’s worth from the book. This morning as we were leafing through the book, we found a bunch of interesting acronyms that we reproduce below […]
In the Iranian imagination, a nuclear weapon is essential if the country is to assume its rightful place among the world’s leading nations. – After the Crackdown by Jon Lee Anderson in New Yorker, August 16 & 23, 2010 p.64 One of the hot topics of debate in U.S. military circles is when President Obama […]
Who’d have thought the U.S. government would draw upon the assistance of Indian software coolies to stem the inflow of amigos from across the Southern border. Here, read this excerpt from the NYT: A Senate bill approved Thursday night by unanimous consent would pay for more security along the Mexico border by raising fees for […]
God must exist. How else can you can explain reports of a bad opening for the twit sisters’ crap-show Aisha. Here’s what some analysts had to say: Box Office India: Aisha opened to a poor response with 30-35% collections at multiplexes this morning. The collections in the afternoon did not show much improvement and were […]