Monday Blues: Be true to yourself

I was not an admirer of Arnab Goswami till recently. I think I started to like his attitude these days. Here is a wonderful video shared by my prof and I am urging you to have a look at it and see how it is important to believe in yourself and follow your dreams.

Kiss you, Dog!

Many of you have already seen Bush ducking like a professional when a journo threw his shoes at him. Now this is a picture taken from the front just as he was doing it. What Bush did was great. He bahaved like a gentleman: composed, quick and thoughtful! In fact I was expecting him to get angry at the least. He did not. And his comment that the size was 10 was very cheerful.

Was this a publicity stunt?
Or a symbolic action?
Momentary anger?

Well the media reported it in such a way that they equated it with how people bet Saddam Hussein's statue with soles when he was ousted. It takes a lot of strength to stand up to what you feel and do, own your actions. Bush has had quite happening presidency and took some strong decisions on Iraq, Afghanistan and policies. Let's see how many of them will have good results.

Indian newspapers fall for baroque Nazi war criminal hoax

The Pen Pricks, who run a blog skewering the Goan press, promised readers on Sunday they were about to break a “big, Big, BIg, BIG” story. It looks like they succeeded. Still, it should not take pranksters to remind us that gullibility is a dangerous flaw in journalism.

It takes Google only 0.13 seconds to establish that the Marsha Tikash Whanaab concentration camp at which Bach was apparently posted does not exist. The Express reporter, at least, telephoned the German embassy and Indian police for comment. The fact they had no idea what the reporter was talking about did not deter publication. Only the Times of India gave even a hint that it smelt something fishy, but ran a story all the same.

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