ROFL! I love you guys! I really do. I like to leave them in waiting rooms and then sit back and watch people find them.
`Nother take on the article, though. India is the world's largest Democracy. I knew that, but somehow I forgot it. Never really took the time to look into it and see how the people who say that are defining the term "democracy".
But then consider Baliwood, alien contact stories in the headlines that might have been written by Twain, fairly recently having thrown off the British Crown and begun negotiating successfully for itself in world markets ... doesn't it all remind you just a little of early America in some ways?
I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive. I am not young, and I love life. But I should scorn to shiver with terror at the thought of annihilation. Happiness is none the less true happiness because it must come to an end, nor do thought and love lose their value because they are not everlasting.
--Bertrand Russell, British philosopher, educator, mathemetician, and social critic