Lunch is on Him

Historian Ram Guha gets the book advance he deserves.

Death of a Reality Star

"I don't want my kids to have the same miserable, drug-blighted, poverty-stricken childhood that I did."

Tool Box

Clearly, Varun's the Gandhi who got hit with the stupid stick. (Also the ugly stick, but let's not get into that). 

Only a tool would indulge in the sort of hate speech that made Modi famous and do it front of a TV camera. But only a real tool would get into trouble for it from his own party, a party that adores Modi and Modi-style politics, which continues to indulge in hate speech and which has won elections because of it. 

Varun Gandhi may hate Muslims. But it seems that everyone, including his own colleagues, hates Varun Gandhi.

Victims of a Global Conspiracy

According to the Pakistani Government, the terrorists who attacked the Sri Lankan cricket team in Pakistan yesterday weren't Pakistani. 

The terrorists who bulldozed Bombay in November 2008 weren't Pakistani either.

And there are no Pakistani terrorists operating in Kashmir-ever.

'The Unintentionally Farcical Governor of Louisiana'

'Listening to Jindal talk Tuesday night about his immigrant father’s inability to pay for an obstetrician, you’d never guess that at the time his father was an engineer and his mother an L.S.U. doctoral candidate in nuclear physics.'

Frank Rich thinks Bobs Jindal is full of hot air.