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Patient Needs Surgery, Says PathogenThis is hilarious. The India Uncut Blog © 2007 Amit Varma. All rights reserved. Visit: India Uncut * The IU Blog * Rave Out * Extrowords * Workoutable * Linkastic ... |
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Choose Your ReligionIn case you’re confused about your religious beliefs, the awesome flowchart below, created by the good people at Holy Taco, should resolve all doubts: False gods are everywhere, of course, and I’m sure you’ll find a vendor to customize one to your needs. May we all be... |
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The Bastiat Winners for 2009…... have been announced. My congratulations to John Hasnas for winning the Bastiat Prize for 2009. Hasnas beat out former winner Robert Guest with this superb piece of his: “The ‘Unseen’ Deserve Empathy, Too.” Going by previous years, I have no doubt that all the nominees ... |
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‘Like a Poppy-Head on the Shaft’If you’re in the mood for action-packed, pulpy writing, I offer you the following extract from The Iliad by Homer: But the Argives rose in grief to avenge that boast—skilled Peneleos most of all. He charged Acamas—Acamas could not stand the attack, he ran—and Peneleos s... |
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EducationAnother superb quote I just came across: When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, ‘no, I went to films.’ -- Quentin Tarantino It’s the same with books and writing, I’d say. You learn first by reading for pleasure—and then by writing. I&rsqu... |
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‘The Most Unutterable Scoundrels’I love this quote: I am the most courteous man in the world. I pride myself on never once having been rude, in this land full of the most unutterable scoundrels, who will come and sit down next to you and tell you their woes and even declaim their poetry to you. -- Heinrich Heine, Reisebi... |

