There’s a great campaign going on in India against a very, very bad campaign. It takes as its symbol the pink “chaddi,” or “underwear” in several Indian languages, and seeks to fight the Taliban-style oppression by both Hindus and Muslims that leads to things like the recent Mumbai massacre. Sourahb Mishra explains.
Right-wing Hindu organizations have, [...]

OK, it’s overly long and not all that great a song, but it’s kind of funny and it’s true — some sex toys are toxic and many are not regulated at all.

I understand that Twitter is the hottest new social media thingy going, even though it doesn’t make any money — except for goo-gobs of venture capital.
I’m on Twitter —marginally. I mean, there are these people I don’t know who “follow” me, which is creepy, and in return, I “follow” other people I don’t know, [...]

Now here’s a site that’s fun and useful. Paste Magazine is providing a wonderful utility. Just upload your pic and instantly “Obama-icon” it. You can even add your own caption, or choose one of those provided: hope, progress, change, etc. The registration part’s a bit of a pain but the results are well worth it.

Here at the ass-end of a particularly crappy year, it’s a time for quiet reflection and looking — however fearfully — ahead. So, casting off our usual mantle of obstreperous nonconformity, we mindlessly jump on the bandwagon of year-end cliches and offer for your edification and delight our resolutions for 2009.

We resolve to stop referring [...]

Dinesh, left, and Rinku in their new Under Armor wear
Maybe the holidays have us feeling mellow, but we think we’d love this story any time of the year. A search for “Rinku Singh Dinesh Patel javelin throwers” turns up a lot of hits, but the best version of the back-story is Bruce Reed’s on Slate.
Before [...]

Want to throw a shoe at George W. Bush? How about a dead fish, a slice of pizza or Saddam Hussein’s head or the entire state of Florida? Well, you can by simply going here and playing Duck Bush Dick.

While we went way out on a limb yesterday and posted Pensito Review’s predictions for 2009, we want to share with you today some of the worst predictions for 2008. Foreign Policy has collected the worst prognostications by the pundits. We predict you’ll enjoy them:
1. “If [Hillary Clinton] gets a race against John Edwards and [...]

A Vet Dog greets a service member at the airport
If you’re looking for a good cause to help you convert some year-end dollars into a tax deduction, it would be hard to beat America’s Vet Dogs.

The organization, an offshoot of the Guide Dog Foundation for the Blind, provides service and guide dogs for use by [...]

In 1969, a 14-year-old named Jerry Levitan talked his way into John Lennon’s Toronto hotel room, armed with a reel-to-reel tape recorder. Impressed by the kid’s chutzpah, Lennon obliged him with a five-minute chat that covered war, peace, and the newly arrived Bee Gees.
Levitan teamed up with filmmaker Josh Raskin in 2007 to make [...]