Archive for August, 2008

Hi, folks out there! We are one-year + and Marching On!

Today’s Highlights

We have completed uploading the contents of our CD on laughter The rear is brought up by three reprinted articles on laughter from Reader’s Digest. These will not be kept on the site for more than a week. So, in case you are interested in them, please download on priority. These will be taken More….

Is Suicide Criminal?

Is Suicide Criminal?

Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass,
Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron,
Can be retentive to the strength of spirit;
But life, being weary of these worldly bars,
Never lack power to dismiss itself.
- William Shakespeare, English dramatist and poet, in Julius Caesar.

A youth, who lost a bet of More….

Phelps: Go For Gold..!

Bob’s Banter by Robert Clements
Many amongst us have kids, a little different, more shy, gawky, not too good looking, maybe stutter: now here’s something for you and those kids:
The story of Michael Phelps, whose Olympic achievement – eight gold medals in Beijing, 14 over all – is astonishing in itself. But set against the backdrop More….

Hi, folks out there! We are one-year + and Marching On!

Today’s Highlights
We Have completed uploading the contents of our CD on laughter The rear is brought up by three reprinted articles on laughter from Reader’s Digest. These will not be kept on the site for more than a week. So, in case you are interested in them, please download on priority. These will be taken More….

Should We Dam Stings?

Though I perchance vicious in my guess,
As, I confess, it is my nature’s plague,
To spy into abuses, and oft my jealousy
Shapes faults that are not.
- William Shakespeare, English dramatists and poet (1564-1616) in Othello.

Othello, with his jaundiced eyes, ends up as a tragedy. Many have resorted to spying in pursuit of More….

Orissa, Kashmir: You Reap What You Sow..!

Bob’s Banter by Robert Clements
As I hear about the terrible atrocities in Orissa and watch equally sad and gruesome happenings in Jammu and Kashmir, I know it’s our politicians who are behind all this, who without remorse, without the least concern watch innocents butchered and burnt.
But my dear political friends you reap what you sow; More….

Newest Small Car..!

Bob’s Banter by Robert Clements
Mamata’s Nano..!

Not many know of Mamata Banerjee’s master plan to beat the Tata’s at their own game: “We don’t need no Nano because Mamata has her own Nano for the people!” chanted a party worker of the firebrand leader. “Come let me show you the Mamata Nano!”
I drove with the party More….

Hi, folks out there! We are one-year + and Marching On!

Today’s Highlights
We Have completed uploading the contents of our CD on laughter The rear is brought up by three reprinted articles on laughter from Reader’s Digest. These will not be kept on the site for more than a week. So, in case you are interested in them, please download on priority.

Sting operations are in focus More….

Do We Need Judicial Activism?

Four things belong to a judge: to hear courteously, to answer wisely, to consider soberly, and to decide impartially. – Socrates, Greek philosopher (circa BC 470-399).

Now judges seem to stray away from their traditional role of interpreting the law and establishing the truth. Judicial activism, which encroaches into the legislative and executive realms More….

Chinese Olympic Gold..!

Bob’s Banter by Robert Clements
The Chinese have won the most number of gold medals but the US have won more medals overall, and this is causing a dispute of international proportions between the two giants.
“Look at the medals we are carrying home,” panted an American athlete as he lifted a sack, “even the airlines are More….