It’s been about a week since we all stopped to take a second look at Wal-Mart. Yes, Wal-Mart, watchword for American imperialist evil for decades, villain of countless books, documentaries and feature stories, silent shadowy hand of evil in so many more (think about it: where did Michael Moore buy bullets in Bowling for Columbine?), [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘India’
June 16, 2009
Daily Oddities: Monday World Edition
There’s a lot to talk about in the World today, so lets jump right into it. You know about Tehran and you know about Binyamin Netanyahu’s speech, so we’re skipping that and getting straight down into the stuff you didn’t hear.
GLOBE:
More than a billion people go hungry, says the World Food Program. That’s about as [...]
June 10, 2009
Daily Oddities, June 9th/10th
We’re starting this round of Daily Oddities with something everybody wants–a job! Today’s odd job listings include counting bees in New York City and catelouging controlled substances for the NYPD. Awesome much?
Now that you’re gainfully employed, lets take a quick gander around the globe.
GLOBE: Things are getting ridiculous in Russia, where the racing collapse of [...]
June 3, 2009
Terror Couture
Recently, I’ve become obsessed by terrorist chic- not the kind defined so brilliantly by bradtriescriticaltheory – the sort that’s already been coopted and comodified to the point that Palestinians should be embarassed to wear the kaffieyeh, but things you could only hope to buy abroad or in the untouched pockets of outer borogh New York. [...]
May 25, 2009
MTA goes Delhi Style
Gothamist reports that the MTA may replace the ubiquitious yellow MetroCard with a fancy new smart-card, ala the Delhi Metro, within the next two years. For anyone who has yet to dedicate a special pocket in their purse/backpack/skinny jeans to their MetroCard, this should be welcome news. To anyone who’s ever ridden the super-crowded metro [...]
April 26, 2009
Roma vs. Gypsy: NYT Copy Fail
(VIDEO AFTER THE JUMP!!!)
3rdWorldImagineer is back today with another instalment of ‘why language matters’. For the record, I am not a PC fascist, but I do think it’s critical to examine how we talk about certain subjects, particularly ones gaining steam in the media. Hence, my semi-annual beef with the AP Stylebook.
For the uninitiated, the AP [...]
April 22, 2009
Sri Lanka vs Darfur: How We Read Conflict
*(reader note: since lots of my recent traffic seems to have an infants sense of irony, I’m marking anything I said ironic with asterisks. ****)
I was asked in an interview recently why the Sri Lankan conflict (which has about 1/2 the deaths + 1/3 of the refugees of the Darfur crisis – 95% of the [...]
April 19, 2009
the things i like to write about (are weird)
From time to time, when I am writing, I have this thought—which I occasionally post on FB:
“sometimes i sit down and i write some shit and i think, holy mother of G-d i am a sick, terrible person. at least i’m thin”
Usually in those exact words . Anyone who knows me knows that i write [...]
March 27, 2009
Little Big Things in South Asia part 2—Tata’s Nano and what the 1W is missing
THE NANO IS HERE!
Back in the day when I used to read Adbusters, I remember they had a video that depicted the United States as a pig trying to squirm its way out of the map. It was supposed to represent how North America uses 25% of the world’s resources despite having only 4% of [...]
March 27, 2009
Little Big Things in South Asia Part 1—Lanka and what the 1W is missing
Lots o’ stuff going on in South Asia this week! Tata unveils the Nano, world’s cheapest car (cue whine-track from self-serving American environmental movement) U.N. announces Humanitarian Crisis in Sri Lanka (cue crickets). Orphanage in Bangladesh actually a terror cell? Because there’s so much to say about each (!) I’ve split the posts.
Lanka Lanka Lanka:
While [...]
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