True crime: Caffey family murders

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Like a Russian man who killed over 40 people with deep empathy for a Soviet people who lost their gods and then lost their brotherhood in the post-Soviet era "“ a people who didn't believe any more. He believed the people he killed didn't have a lot left to die.

Forever Young

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When the winds of changes shift May your heart always be joyful And may your song always be sung May you stay forever young Forever young, forever young May you stay forever young.

For All a Baby Knows

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A baby in the womb has no idea its Mother loves cool September breezes floating through the twilight window

When desi people drink

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They drink a lot.     Alcohol Consumption in India - details Daily chart: Boozing it up | The Economist.

Dear Leader Un

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How the dictator of a dystopian society with grey, clouded skies can be such fodder for humor is food for thought for hegemony watchers. Meantime there is more Un goodness here.

Science Jokes

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An interviewer approaches a variety of scientists, and asks them: "Is it true that all odd numbers are prime?"

The annihilation of caste – full essay

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Socialists of India propound that man is an economic creature, that his activities and aspirations are bound by economic facts, that property is the only source of power.

Humility and Simplicity

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Do not write these two thousand word rambling, loud editorials which insults everybody's intelligence. This is not Narendra Modi's party which needs to make up for lack of intelligence and critical thinking through loud provocations. Don't be a cyber hindu.

If you are going to create – Bukowski

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No baby, if you're going to create you're going to create whether you work 16 hours a day in a coal mine or you're going to create in a small room with 3 children while you're on welfare.

An aiport in Aranmula

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The residents of Aranmula question the sheer arrogance of imperial governments in Delhi and Trivandrum deciding to land airplanes on their ponds, rivers, temples and farms. No technical arguments, no GDP discussions, no theory vs praxis confusions, no relativistic laziness

Kasturirangan Report

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Because everyone from Asianet news reader Vinu to the honorable high court of this land will ask you whether you have read the report. The green people (which surprisingly now includesgreen MLA Hibi Eden and Idukki M.P.), are generally assumed to be of higher intellect and are not expected to the answer the question.

Lingavishappu by Vishnu Prasad

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In a recent interview with Madhyamam newspaper, the author talks about the 'hunter's viewpoint' when it comes to sexual assaults. Vishnu Prasad feels better understanding the hunter's social conditions is important enough and is seldom thought of. He feels male sexuality is suppressed in Kerala's social conditioning. He goes to the extent of claiming men are more sexually frustrated than women. He details the 'hunter's viewpoint' in detail in some of his poems, like the recently controversial "Linga vishappu" in which he says, the man's under wear that gets torn from excessive masturbation does not lie about his social condition, about the suppressed hunger of the penis.

Good read: on education

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when workplaces valued punctuality, regularity, attention, and silence above all else. (In 1899, William T. Harris, the US commissioner of education, celebrated the fact that US schools had developed the "appearance of a machine," one that teaches the student "to behave in an orderly manner, to stay in his own place, and not get in the way of others.")

Warhol

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Pink eraser: I never fall apart because I never fall together. Also - "Everybody should like everybody," and "The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting,"

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