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New Delhi: A Delhi-based computer salesman who duped an Indian girl, working with Motorola in US, of 39,000 dollars by contacting her through a matrimonial website has been arrested, police said…

But, that Delhi-based supermodel who contacted me said she really did need the $3000 for a ticket to visit on my b-day. It was just that her mother was sick so she had to postpone and then there was her PhD dissertation defense in Neuroscience, followed by…

A reader (who goes by C&C) on my other blog sent me a link to this hilarious bit done on the best of late night talk shows. Its rather long but worth viewing. Check it out.

Thanks for the heads up C&C!

Badmash strikes again! Read the whole thing.

Parrots from India are wreaking havoc on Israeli crops. It is so bad that authorities are calling them “the number one enemy of the fruit growers in the country.” The green Indian parrot, commonly called “Dhara,” slipped into Israel some thirty years ago. From India Express:

The beautiful green Indian parrot called ‘Drara’ has undergone an “incredible multiplication” during the last few years as its predators have rapidly decreased in numbers, Dr. Yossi Lasham, an ornithologist, was quoted in the Yediot Ahronot daily.

The rich and natural food available all over northern Israel has aided its growth and they have wreaked havoc on the date plantations in Amakim, necessitating authorities to issue directives to adopt measures to control or even reduce their numbers, Lasham told the paper in Jerusalem.

To report the facts of this story correctly for SM readers I contacted the head parrot. He has been forced to remain in his cage for some time now under threat to his life. He told me that he does not recognize the right of Israeli date plantations to exist. The Israeli government is reportedly considering building a large cage around the entire country to curb the devastation to their crops.

I really feel it is completely unecessary for me to make a joke about this one (although you guys can feel free). The facts provide all the humor needed. From Mid-day.com:

IndiaÂ’s first experiment of desi Viagra on animals is going to be tested on the Bihar tigers following the failure of the authorities of Sanjay Gandhi Zoological Garden to raise the tigersÂ’ libido in its bid to enhance their population in the state.

The zoo authority has decided that homeopathic aphrodisiacs and desi Viagra would be tried on tigers to make them impregnate tigresses.

A spokesman of the Garden said the tigers have become very unromantic. “When a tigress started following a white tiger, he bit the tigress’s right paw. This forced us to decide that the only way to do away with the impotency of male tigers is to administer desi Viagra,” he said.

Surely y’all caught this gem by drive-by Photoshopista Super Jagjit.

Because itÂ’s unacceptable to kill an animal referenced throughout Hindu mythology, miscreant monkeys in New Delhi and Punjab are sent to a monkey jail and locked away behind monkey bars. Oh darling, yeh hai India.

At Baljeet Kaur’s house, when the monkey demanded food, it was given cut apples and peeled bananas. Kaur, once bitten by a monkey, said she was happy this monkey was gone…. jailers refer to them by where they were caught: Sanam Monkey or Jalandhar Monkey. “They are so notorious, why should we give them a name?” Atalia said. “They don’t listen anyway,” added Surinder Singh, who is in charge of the Motibagh zoo.

Damn those non-Punjabi-speaking monkeys… How to generate a book title in the South Asian lit category: 1. Come up with a tropical fruit. YouÂ’re done! ItÂ’s The Guava Thief. Call Granta and B&N and ship that sucker.

“He used to eat our guavas,” said Bhagwanti Devi, a neighbor who was harassed by the monkey…

…A friend of mine once noted that the monkey god Hanuman was clearly modeled on Punjabis, because heÂ’s funny, loyal, muscular, hairy, and always spoiling to dish out some whup-ass. And given his vertical leap, heÂ’d make a hell of a baller.

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One of the most widely read bloggers Andrew Sullivan writes for Time Magazine this week about the power of bloggers:

“Bloggers have no checks and balances. [It’s] a guy sitting in his living room in his pajamas.”
—JONATHAN KLEIN, former senior executive of 60 Minutes, on Fox News

Well, last week, the insurrectionary pajama people—dubbed “pajamahadeen” by some Web nuts—successfully scaled one more citadel of the mainstream media, CBS News. One of the biggest, baddest media stars, Dan Rather, is now clinging, white-knuckled, to his job. Not bad for a bunch of slackers in their nightclothes.

I am seriously thinking of getting a Pajamahadeen tatoo now. I have always wanted to be part of a club. Somewhere I belonged.

The critics of blogs cite their lack of professionalism. Piffle. The dirty little secret of journalism is that it isn’t really a profession. It’s a craft. All you need is a telephone and a conscience, and you’re all set. You get better at it merely by doing it—which is why fancy journalism schools are, to my mind, such a waste of time.

I assure you that all at SepiaMutiny have a conscience. Well…five out of six is not bad.

Does this mean the old media is dead? Not at all. Blogs depend on the journalistic resources of big media to do the bulk of reporting and analysis. What blogs do is provide the best scrutiny of big media imaginable—ratcheting up the standards of the professionals, adding new voices, new perspectives and new facts every minute. The genius lies not so much in the bloggers themselves but in the transparent system they have created. In an era of polarized debate, the truth has never been more available. Thank the guys in the pajamas. And read them.

Yes. Please read us. AND please tell your friends.