Archive for May, 2005

PepsiCo’s Indian-American president Indra Nooyi has gotten herself in a pickle by making some headscratchingly stupid remarks regarding America and its role in the world. You can read her whole tirade here, originally delivered at Columbia Business School’s graduation ceremony this week. The following two paragraphs are the gist of her speech, where she is [...]

It has been many moons since I last subscribed to Newsweek, and countless more shall pass before I do so again. I have long spurned the magazine for its habitual left-wing tilt, and, unless the magazine drifts considerably to the right, I’m not going to spend another dime on it, nor inflate its circulation by [...]

The behavior shown in this clip is unacceptable. How unacceptable? You won’t know unless you watch it, right? The clip supposedly shows a fight between two so-called baby-squads in Sweden: Bajen Baby Squad consists of teenage, hardcore fans of Stockholm-based Hammarby IF (or “Bajen”), while Baby Boys are their counterparts from AIK, a popular team [...]

Nowadays I love listening to AC/DC and Metallica, but back in the days I didn’t really care much for heavy metal at all. The 1980′s were, to me, a musical nightmare dominated by chaotic heavy metal and prissy electronic music (does the name Howard Jones ring a bell?). Neither one was my style. While I’ve [...]

I’m not exactly jiggy with fashion, but I do dress the way I do on purpose and with purpose. My collection of no-name blue jeans and solid, muted color button-down shirts, along with low-status pseudo-athletic footwear is my way to distinguish myself from metrosexuals, Euro-trash, A&F’ers, goths, gays, suits, skaters and other subcultures I have [...]

All ‘roided-up Danish police officers, many of them in plain clothes, repeatedly attacked fans of Swedish soccer club Malmö FF during a game last week. You can watch some of the shenanigans here. It is not pretty stuff. Now, a few Swedish clubs do have fan cliques of serious brawlers who are not easily handled, [...]

The city of Boston has settled with the Snelgrove family for $5.1 million, according Associated Press reporter Michael Kunzelman, as compensation for the terrible death of their daughter Victoria Snelgrove, an Emerson College student who was shot and killed by a Boston police officer using an air powered pepper-ball gun during chaotic and at times [...]