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Now truck drivers

Tuesday, July 4, 2006

Is the United States of America turning into Saudi Arabia? Or such middle eastern, oil rich countries where outsiders do all the work, especially the less glamourous stuff!
Read this news story in the Hindu on training truck drivers, who are being recruited to work in the U.S. Hey, if you can make more than entry [...]

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Bus Uncle

Friday, June 9, 2006

A tap on the shoulder. A request that he lower his voice, while speaking on the cell phone in a bus. The bus Uncle starts screaming at the young ‘tapper’, offering commentary on life, pressure, etiquette all in obscenity laden stream of consciousness invective.
The infamous Hongkong video, captured by a fellow passenger, has already spawned [...]

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The Reservations Conundrum

Wednesday, June 7, 2006

I am part of a new group blog of historians ‘Revise and Dissent‘ at History News and Network.
Although this blog came into existence about ten days, I began posting there from today. I wanted to do a series of entries on the recent Reservations saga both here and at Revise and Dissent but it is [...]

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On Critical Inquiry

Tuesday, May 30, 2006

OK, strictly for University geeks, here is an essay in the Chronincle for Higher Education by Lindsay Waters, who makes fun of an essay (appropriately entitled ‘The History and Future of the Footnote in Critical Inquiry’) Critical Inquiry published recently ranking the greatest literary theorists cited in its pages. Here is the relevant quote:
But even [...]

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MexAmerica

Sunday, May 28, 2006

Writer and commentator, Richard Rodriguez has a nice essay in the WAPO on the illegal immigrant as the ‘great prophetic figure’ within the Americas. As people have moved in search of livelihood or pleasure, legally or illegally, the inevitable Mexicanization of America and the Americanization of Mexico does create anxieties everywhere. Bush gets this perhaps [...]

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For our general education

Wednesday, May 24, 2006

From Wikipedia, here is an entry for our general education: Bushism.
Entertaining. Educative.
Some day soon, a student of Michael Silverstein’s will write a nice dissertation on the semiotics of Bushisms. And take the joy out of reading these. Until then, enjoy, especially the poem at the end.
Disclaimer: I am huge admirer of Prof. Silverstein and I [...]

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