Loanshark, literally

I don't know if I've mentioned it before, but one of my favourite one-episode characters in Buffy is the loanshark shown in Tabula Rasa (Season 6, Episode 8). Everytime I see the recovery agent with the head of a shark (like tonight), I burst up in laughter :)

Spare the children

It makes for sad reading. Even for China...

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/13/sports/olympics/13beijing.html

Trouble in paradise

A decade of patient and painful counter-insurgency and resurrection of democracy had at long last brought Jammu and Kashmir to the brink of normalcy. But the politicians have found a way to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, with the Amarnath Yatra fiasco reigniting violence in the state. How sickening :(