Since I know first-hand the terrible things that young men are capable of when deprived of romantic companionship for too long, I fear for the future of India. The country’s gender ratio is skewing way too male these days, which means that tens of millions of 21-year-old men will one day find themselves coming up […]
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The Scent of Perfume in Biloxi
April 14th, 2011 · Comments Off on The Scent of Perfume in Biloxi
Tags:demographics·economics·India·Mississippi·Mizoram·statistics
Hogs and Dogs
July 19th, 2010 · Comments Off on Hogs and Dogs
(Cross-posted from Ta-Nehisi Coates) There’s controversy brewing in southern Mississippi, where Jackson County recently approved a hog-dog bay. That’s an event in which a hunting dog corners a boar in a pen, to the ostensible delight of onlookers. To those who oppose the practice, it comes perilously close to an interspecies take on dogfighting; to […]
Tags:animals·dogs·Mississippi·pigs·sports