WTF

This is an article posted on Rediff after the Sri Lankan cricket team was attacked in Pakistan. WTFness at many levels:

1) "They are the same people who attacked Mumbai" - The ghosts of the 9 killed and 1 alive Kasab escaped from custody to carry out this attack?

2) "Pakistan Punjab governor Salmaan Tahseer, Governor of Pakistan's Punjab province on Tuesday, said the attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team's bus in Lahore [Images] was similar to the Mumbai's 26/11 attack" - wtf. 250 people v/s 4 people killed. Mumbai was a suicide mission while this was a hit and run

3) "Around 180 people were killed in Mumbai last November" - 180? Really? Close to 250...

4) Rediff printing it the way it is....

Sex and Cricket

I have always admired the BCCI for marketing shrewdness rivaled only by Apple Inc. They have spun around one of the laziest game in the world into the gold pot at the end of the rainbow. I always wondered how they did it and it finally struck me when Anil Kumble a.k.a Anal Kumble hung up his gloves.
The answer is mixing cricket with SEX. We are the land of the kamasutra and combining a lazy sport with sex hit the nail on the head for most Indians (Indians being lazy and horny all the time). The signs are all there for us to see. It starts with the pet names we have assigned our cricketers.

1) Anil Kumble - "Jumbo" if I was a girl I would want a husband like Kumble who keeps trying relentlessly all day and has a nickname of “Jumbo” (as in big)

2) Sachin Tendulkar - "Master Blaster" - he will take you to dizzy heights NASA would only dream of

3) VVS Laxman - The "very very special" is a bit too obvious.

4) Virendra Sehwag - "The Butcher of Najafgarh". With a name like that, you know that he can handle "meat".

5) MS Dhoni - "Mahi". Derived from "Mahi Ve" a sensuous Bollywood song. Seems to go a long way...(he he)

6) SC Ganguly- "Dada", "The prince of Kolkata" - We know what a Dada does when you disobey and with "Prince" in your name the courtesans are never be too far. Ask Nagma.

7) Sunil Gavaskar - "Little master" - this name was assigned long before BCCL became bigger than Rambha's bosom. But the WI got a "taste" of the little master who knew how to put to use his "shortcomings".

Not getting into what G. Gambhir, I. Sharma, Z. Khan and lot will be called but I assume they will follow their more respected teammates.

Here is wishing Jumbo the best in life and retirement.

Racism

Centuries of persecution of the black man is ending with a vengeance (almost). Politically correct white people are in a frenzy to set things right. Another impossible attempt to wipe out centuries of persecution, oppression, lynching etc of black people. The English language is changing too. "They", "you people" etc which were used frivolously are now swear words. Be careful what you say.
Brown is the new black. Post 9/11 (the world revolves around the USA) brown is the new colour of hate, prejudice and fear. A black man can walk through the airport security without fear of being rechecked or humiliated, else it would be a racist act. Brown people on the other hand can be stripped, humiliated and abused.
I assume its a phase. Brown people will be under the scanner for time to come and add to it the ignorance and laziness of the west to sit and find out the diversity that brown brings to the table.
The funny part is that ICC has adopted the racial abuse code literally and is blind to reason. Case in point the Harbhajan-Symonds case in Australia. Harbhajan got away because he referred to Symond's mothers privates, which by the way exist and are none of Harbhajan's business. But calling him and animal- "monkey" which Symonds isn't would warrant a harsher punishment that the reference to his mother.
Logic it seems is missing with almost all decisions the human race takes...be it religion or racism.