tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15286977472691675322024-03-13T04:40:58.674-04:00SNAFUMemes with themesLiberalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09577916284904795147noreply@blogger.comBlogger96125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1528697747269167532.post-25597751458977057312009-12-04T14:44:00.004-05:002011-08-09T12:54:44.188-04:00Ba bye blogger!Hi All
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PS: My name on wordpress is liberalcynic cause liberal wasn't available!Liberalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09577916284904795147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1528697747269167532.post-73118485505887345202009-11-17T00:08:00.001-05:002009-11-17T00:08:07.269-05:00WonderingsHow do u interpret wat eyes say? What about power of suggestion? How do you control for the answers we wanna see or hear? What psychological expts can we run secretly and when can we arrive at enough data to remove internal error? Terminal 3 JFK, a year and yet not enuf data. Somehow the head wants to trust and a normal head would, but this one has been so careful believing that trusting and Liberalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09577916284904795147noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1528697747269167532.post-89633192570305919552009-10-19T17:52:00.002-04:002009-10-19T17:53:50.198-04:00Sibal’s spitballUnion HRD minister Kapil Sibal wants to give a higher weightage to 12th board marks in the IIT qualifiers. Specifically, he wants to raise the minimum 12th board score from 60% to 80-85% for a qualification to the IIT entrance exams. He says that it will reduce the influence of coaching classes, and focus the students on 12th boards.When did this man turn into the nut he seems to be today? First Liberalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09577916284904795147noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1528697747269167532.post-23660640912223072982009-10-05T23:56:00.002-04:002009-10-05T23:59:40.012-04:00Scientific Misconduct - An Insight "There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact."Mark Twain Human beings are passionate; scientists more so than anyone else. That we take a few given facts and let our imaginations run wild is probably our best quality as far as science is concerned. For centuries, budding scientists have taken for Liberalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09577916284904795147noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1528697747269167532.post-61377812319581141622009-09-10T18:24:00.001-04:002009-09-10T18:27:48.635-04:00Obama's speech to Congress <!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal.dotm 0 0 1 992 5660 St. John's University 47 11 6950 12.0 <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]> 0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]> <![endif]--> <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Times; panose-1:2 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0; Liberalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09577916284904795147noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1528697747269167532.post-40562377865635027662009-08-31T14:22:00.001-04:002009-08-31T14:22:54.870-04:00iBloggingHi guysI have introduced myself to blogging from the iPhone. That's right. I will be sharing my idle chatter from any and all places where today's oxygen (read 3g) is available. CheersLiberalLiberalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09577916284904795147noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1528697747269167532.post-63835753800102122562009-08-18T19:56:00.001-04:002009-08-18T19:56:53.203-04:00A more perfect universal optionAs Obama starts to deliver on what he has been promising ever since the primaries, there is a lot of talk between both wings of the electorate as to how the nation should proceed.The left wing is deafening in its bid for a public option in healthcare. They are divided into many groups, some of whom believe that a single-payer system is the answer to everything, while others believe that a hybrid Liberalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09577916284904795147noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1528697747269167532.post-23745149619827009902009-08-17T19:51:00.002-04:002009-08-28T17:13:29.278-04:00Pol khuliThe things we say whilst in a relationship but don't really mean"Yes, you were the first.""Yes, you are the last.""Trust me, they're big enough." (Actually this does work both ways!) (I am getting a FRIENDS flashback.)"Of course I noticed the new earrings.""She was just a crush.""You are right. I didn't know what I was thinking.""I never understood (insert random topic) until I discussed it with Liberalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09577916284904795147noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1528697747269167532.post-26613010678442990332009-07-21T20:55:00.002-04:002009-07-21T21:00:31.879-04:00A chhoto mayor tale..."Reverse racism!", cries the right, while the left screams, "About time!" The centrists are left to do the math. Sotomayor has good qualifications. She is a graduate of Princeton and Yale law. She does not have any skeletons in her closet (yet!), which leaves the right splitting hairs on her rulings. Hispanics used to occupy a sizable portion of some parts of the USA. This can be evidenced by Liberalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09577916284904795147noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1528697747269167532.post-9600668284974480652009-07-13T18:01:00.004-04:002009-07-13T18:22:02.758-04:00Pain & resilience"I like to punish myself L, I like to punish my body and keep pushing its limits." This was said to my uncle by his colleague when they were talking about exercising and trekking and stuff like that. When he had told me this sentence, I scoffed. I was a firm believer in "No pain...what's the catch?" philosophy. It had its effects. A growing kaboose, reducing stamina, and chronic fatigue, which Liberalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09577916284904795147noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1528697747269167532.post-38777624769575623632009-07-13T17:57:00.001-04:002009-07-13T17:58:26.495-04:00Strange happinessI had written this some time ago...it seemed nice then...let's see how it plays out now.I don't know what has come over meA strange ephemeral happiness A feeling of satiation, coupled with Some anxietyIt shows me more of who I amShows me more of who I'm not Makes me realize my predilections On this path of self-discovery Shaken I feel with some turmoil Upset I am at something in the airYet there Liberalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09577916284904795147noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1528697747269167532.post-37841186288752692009-06-30T11:19:00.004-04:002009-06-30T11:49:24.959-04:00A random note about meA long time ago, I had read somewhere that 'ethics' were a luxury of people whose basic needs were already met. Pretty cynical huh? I always thought of myself as a principled and ethical person, who would not bend rules just to satisfy some greed. Recently, I was decribed by someone as 'internally good'. (The same person, however also called me 'andar se kameena' many times. Some others have saidLiberalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09577916284904795147noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1528697747269167532.post-37366739121550744192009-06-26T04:25:00.001-04:002009-06-26T04:25:43.967-04:00Clean socksSwimming was the most relaxing thing in her life. Even though she was a runner, and loved roller-blading, but there was nothing like gliding in water. Taking in the cool water while it swept over her made her feel like it cleansed her every pore. She was OCD clean, but the dirty water tended to make her feel pure. She always knew that river swimming was not a piece of cake, the currents were Liberalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09577916284904795147noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1528697747269167532.post-68806583056182397022009-06-17T17:49:00.001-04:002009-06-17T17:49:18.244-04:00Lying to yourselfHonesty with the self is the hardest thing to achieve. People always say, “It is easy to lie to the whole world, but how can you lie to yourself?” We say this while each one of us is deluding ourselves from the fact that we all lie to ourselves; and pretty well too. I have a friend who breaks his diet whenever we go to Sardar pav bhaji (for non-Mumbaikars, it is a place in Tardeo, Mumbai where Liberalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09577916284904795147noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1528697747269167532.post-67434202490340334732009-06-10T23:43:00.001-04:002009-06-10T23:43:17.482-04:00Cynical CheneyEx-VP Dick Cheney has made a public statement supporting gay marriage. His statement, "I think, you know, freedom means freedom for everyone. I think people ought to be free to enter into any kind of union they wish, any kind of arrangement they wish," clearly shows that he is not even on the fence on this issue. Oh dear! If only you had ever been in a position where you could pass a legislature Liberalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09577916284904795147noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1528697747269167532.post-82733519018550875602009-06-03T19:15:00.001-04:002009-06-03T19:15:52.035-04:00Meera’s woe (Concluding part)The sunlight blazed into the room as Meera could not help waking up. After an entire week of lazing around and committing all possible abacharams her grandma would have frowned upon, her mom noticed that Meera seemed to be on the phone quite often, and not too cheerful. Even her visit to her engineering college seemed to get her down. She always had an inkling that her daughter was in a Liberalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09577916284904795147noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1528697747269167532.post-4802298589939661742009-05-31T13:34:00.005-04:002009-06-01T09:29:53.280-04:00Moving(Opening Caveat: This post is not related to Meera's woe. I am working on the concluding part right now. I will post that soon.)I hate moving. I can completely relate to people stuck in dead-end apartments simply because they aren't able to summon up the energy and the drive to move into another place.Here I was in the Nolita area of downtown Manhattan helping my cousin move from an apartment Liberalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09577916284904795147noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1528697747269167532.post-44511524287879755802009-05-29T14:45:00.002-04:002009-05-29T15:31:35.012-04:00Meera’s woe: Part 2May 2008 "Thank you for flying Emirates Airlines. Please wait for exit instructions from the cabin crew." The voice sounded young, though Meera knew better. Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport was here at last. She was going to meet her family after nine months. She could picture their excited faces in her head. Why she was not excited, she could not tell. She longed to see her little Liberalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09577916284904795147noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1528697747269167532.post-34205944450015128662009-05-29T01:56:00.003-04:002009-05-31T11:32:17.984-04:00Meera’s woe: Part 1September 2003Meera sighed at the sight of the building. It was more dilapidated than she had imagined the ruined palaces of the Ottoman Empire to have been. She had to strain to hear the rickshaw driver. This surprised her, for she had never known a man to speak with such a soft voice. She paid him Rs. 100 and expected him to make any excuse possible to avoid giving her the change of Rs. 7.50, Liberalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09577916284904795147noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1528697747269167532.post-26896439259112042922009-05-26T20:04:00.001-04:002009-05-26T20:04:04.312-04:00Pharma: Debating the ethicsFor the uninitiated, a clinical trial is pretty much a study of a new drug or formulation in humans. Before this, the drug/medication has been tested in animals which progressively go up the evolutionary scale to make sure that our principle has some modicum of proof. These trials usually have three phases which when complete and analyzed lead to a decision as to whether this medication does whatLiberalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09577916284904795147noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1528697747269167532.post-61584525094066790812009-05-22T15:56:00.002-04:002009-05-22T16:02:01.601-04:00Ode to a muffinThere are desserts and there are other desserts. Some are nice, but most are heavy. To me, a dessert should be heavy. I must regret having learned to eat after eating the dessert. There is no other way to enjoy it. Here, I am talking about a muffin.I don't know why I love it so much. Probably because of the wonderful exterior, probably because of the moist goodness locked inside that only the Liberalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09577916284904795147noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1528697747269167532.post-60718537000050858372009-05-08T12:11:00.003-04:002009-05-08T12:36:44.574-04:00Manhattan delightsA dear friend of mine once described a concept called 'patel shots'. When I asked him to elaborate, he said that they were postcard-type photos taken by tourists near all the garden variety tourist spots around a popular city. This guy loved all the nuances of NYC that I could show him, but make no mistake, he could give the patels a run for their money (which is bucketloads, by the way!) in the Liberalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09577916284904795147noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1528697747269167532.post-46993699317659728452009-04-19T12:57:00.002-04:002009-04-19T13:06:09.426-04:00Love montage"Must we wait for our light to turn green completely? Why can't you just cross when there are no cars around?""That's just the way I do it. You can go ahead, just wait for me on the other side."Many street crossings passed. Neither one changed…well, one was forced to… "Stop, don't do that. Can't you wait till we reach the other side to kiss me?""What's the fun in that?"On a park bench, when otherLiberalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09577916284904795147noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1528697747269167532.post-63063598573742046522009-03-31T14:09:00.003-04:002009-04-17T15:23:28.707-04:00Code greenBill Maher (of Real Time with Bill Maher, HBO) asked an important question to his panel recently. He asked that how is the current Obama plan to buy toxic assets (also called the 'cash for trash' strategy) better than Bush's? He is doing the same thing that Bush was doing, and somehow he is being given a clean chit no matter what.Right now we are bailing out companies, some of whom do not deserveLiberalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09577916284904795147noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1528697747269167532.post-78154013251930222422009-03-08T12:30:00.002-04:002009-03-08T12:45:13.931-04:00Hang on, Darfur...no spare changeNick Kristof is a very passionate man. His Op-Eds for the gray lady are from the heart and head in a nice combination. He writes a lot about the genocide in Darfur, Sudan. The International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for the President of Sudan Omar al-Bashir on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity. This man has now imposed further sanctions on aid given to the hurt Liberalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09577916284904795147noreply@blogger.com11