An Amrikan Chimaera, Author at Jollybengali.net - An Amrikan Chimaera's Journey

December 30, 2014 Demosthenes

Ending the righty Hegemony of Smartphones

…or Soon the Southpaw Revolution Will Come! Lifehacker has a post about switching to a RTL (right-to-Left) orientation which should make using one’s smartphone

December 24, 2014 Demosthenes

Iggy Azalea and the New Minstrels

Recently, Azealia Banks has gotten into a huge battle with the white Australian rapper Iggy Azalea over Iggy’s cultural appropriation of blackness, calling it

October 20, 2014 Demosthenes

India’s Pragmatism – Staying the Frak Out of the Middle East

In a provocative essay in Foreign Affairs, Shashank Joshi lays out the reasons why India has, by and large, stayed out of Middle Eastern

Angela George [CC-BY-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

October 7, 2014 Locke

Tribal Solutions to Ben Affleck’s Dust-Up with Bill Maher over Islam

Or… Infidels Have No Place at the Table By now you’ve probably heard of or seen the clip of Ben Affleck angrily defending Islam

"Pluto moon P5 discovery with moons' orbits" by NASA, ESA, and L. Frattare (STScI) - http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2012/32/image/c/. Licensed under Public domain via Wikimedia Commons - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pluto_moon_P5_discovery_with_moons%27_orbits.jpg#mediaviewer/File:Pluto_moon_P5_discovery_with_moons%27_orbits.jpg

September 23, 2014 Demosthenes

STOP Trying to Make Pluto a Planet Again!

… Or Pluto is a Ball of Rock & Ice, not a Cartoon Dog A few years ago, the International Astronomical Union standardized the

September 16, 2014 Demosthenes

The USA, NATO, Russia, China, and the Monroe Doctrine

In his latest show, Common Sense podcaster Dan Carlin talked about how the actions of Russia are in large part an answer to NATO

February 25, 2014 Demosthenes

Get Yer Head Outta Yer Arse, Arizona

The state legislature of Arizona recently passed a law allowing that would allow business owners, as long as they assert their religious beliefs, to

February 24, 2014 Demosthenes

Karma’s Not a Bitch, Your Dogmas Are…

Every once in a while, I like to put on Chris Rock’s comedy special Bigger & Blacker. If you haven’t seen it, do so.

February 23, 2014 Of cabbages and kings

My (hopefully) Futureproofed Tech Lineup

After my recent post about avoiding technology extinctions, I decided to check out my lineup to see how well I’m doing. By and large,

February 20, 2014 Locke

Futureproofing Against Tech Extinctions

In a New York Times article yesterday, Farhad Manjoo wrote about how to survive the next tech extinction. VHS vs Betamax. HD DVD vs