Saturday, January 19, 2008 - New Years in the Eastern Hemisphere

Me, my brother and our respective wives spent New Years in the Eastern Hemisphere - Abizer & Alifiya in Chennai and Mumtaz & I in Dubai. Both of us ended up getting caught in massive traffic jams from hell. It took over 2 hours for the stinkin' cab to even get to our hotel and in both our cases, we ended up spending New Years in the car - what should have been a 10 minute commute took us both 1.5+ hours.

But what we found really interesting was watching the thousands of people out on the road - in *both* cases, they were ALL men!?!?! All we saw were drunken hoards of roaming men, with no women to be seen anywhere.

Now Abizer and Alifiya were shocked and appalled ("WTF??" was Abizer's exact quote as I recall, Alifiya referred to this experience as the "Gay Parade!"), however, I was much more understanding. After all, what business does a woman have outside the home, drinking and carousing in the middle of the night no less? She should be home cooking, cleaning and caring for the 8+ children that she has sired for her husband! Anything additional is just not appropriate.

Mumtaz was in total agreement (Hey, I can dream, can't I??).

Wednesday, January 16, 2008 - Deep insight

My favorite bit of insight so far from this election season is General Wesley Clark stating, while commenting on the Democratic race on the night of the New Hampshire primaries, that, "it's still too early to call this election."

In other news, later that night, General Clark's retinas were burned after he stared into a mysterious glowing orb - observers characterized the orb as, "a blinding flash of the obvious."

Sunday, January 06, 2008 - State of politics

I was pretty bummed to hear, shortly after our return to the US, that Joe Biden's candidacy for the presidency was at an end. I am no longer "sidin' with Biden" as he has lost his "Mo-Joe" and wasn't able to keep up his "Joe-mentum." (these are all real taglines - dude, I can't make up stuff that is so cheesy. Apologies to Lieberman for the requisitioning of "Joe-mentum").

While Biden was a long shot, I am now placing all my hopes on my man, McCain - I am hopeful as he is still on top of the Republican polls in New Hampshire, tho not by a lot.

Finally, I am very disappointed with all y'all's lack of support for Dennis Kucinich and Alan Keyes in my poll to the right. If we do not support our fringe candidates, who is going to tell us (with a straight face) to abolish the income tax or withdraw from NAFTA and the WTO??