HP CEO Meg Whitman Goes Bonkers

HP CEO and failed governor candidate Meg Whitman must be one crazy woman! Why else would HP announce FIVE new Android and Windows tablets when most vendors of these tablets are struggling to sell their devices and not lose too much money. Android tablet vendors are in a price war to the bottom while Windows […]

Jhumpa Sneers at Notion of Immigrant Fiction

Americans abhor complexity. Simplicity is the lodestar of their lives. They like neat categories into which they can pigeonhole people, ideas, religion, food, sex and attitudes even if such categorizations make no sense. If you’re a Muslim, you’re either a terrorist or sleeper-cell terrorist. If you’re Black, you must be a criminal or surviving on […]

Zanjeer Review – Trash Begets Trash

Don’t believe the clowns who tell you the old Zanjeer (1973) is an iconic or classic film. I watched a matinee show of the old Zanjeer (Amitabh Bachchan, Pran, Jaya Bhaduri, Ajit) on a hot summer day in its 1978 re-run. And to the great anguish of my dear and near ones, my recovery was […]

Jobs Review – Incomplete Job

What Intel has done for the microprocessor, we’re going to do for the home computer. – Apple co-founder Steve Jobs in the Hollywood movie Jobs Steve Jobs was a Class A asshole in his shabby treatment of people around him. Jobs was also an astute and wealthy businessman thanks to co-founding Apple and his role […]

Kick Ass 2 – Cheap Ass Garbage

Act like a bitch, get slapped like a bitch. – Hit Girl to Kick Ass in Kick Ass 2 To my great disappointment, Kick Ass 2 turned out to be no different from the run of the mill trashy Bollywood film. Think of Kick Ass 2 as the Hollywood equivalent of Once Upon a Time […]

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