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Photograph of the day

By Ahsan Butt Tue, May 01, 2012 5:03AM UTC View Comments

This is what your face looks like when you get punched in the head. Via Yahoo sports....

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Excerpt of the day: ‘You may sit there.’

By Ahsan Butt Tue, Apr 24, 2012 12:11AM UTC View Comments

This is from Basharat Peer’s Curfewed Night about growing up and living with the Kashmir conflict. This excerpt is drawn from a section where a young Peer is moving away from Kashmir to go to university in Aligarh. To get there, he is on a train with his grandfather. A few hours into the journey,...

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Video of the day: Kevin Garnett was in a bar fight

By Ahsan Butt Sat, Jan 28, 2012 1:53PM UTC View Comments

I think KG is trying to tell us all something: I can’t decide what it is about this interview that I love the most. Is it that KG started talking before Craig Sager had even asked a question, then realizing thirty seconds in that he was being asked a question? Is it that KG was...

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Excerpts of the day

By Ahsan Butt Tue, Nov 29, 2011 7:15AM UTC View Comments

One of the things I like best about studying political science is reading the opinions and insights of people from another age (whether they be through archives or biographies or whatever). It’s really interesting to chart various developments over time in the way we think about certain things. Obviously humans as a biological species don’t...

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Video of the Day: Rehman Malik on the cause of Karachi’s violence

By Ahsan Butt Thu, Jul 14, 2011 3:48AM UTC View Comments

Apparently the men of Karachi are so terrible that their wives and girlfriends are having them killed by the dozen. Watch from 1:00 in (via @shahidsaeed). Remember that this is our Interior Minister. He has a real job (protecting the citizens of Pakistan) with real responsibilities. I’ll make a deal with the PPP right now:...

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