Microkhan by Brendan I. Koerner

Entries Tagged as 'Over the Top'

A Proud Tradition Betrayed

June 15th, 2010 · Comments Off on A Proud Tradition Betrayed

To our tremendous relief, the 65-day blockade of Manipur appears to be over, thereby allowing much-needed food and medicine to flow into the Indian state. (Microkhan’s backgrounder on the crisis can be found here.) Now, perhaps, the local government can focus on what strikes us a problem of only slightly lesser importance: the long decline […]

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“The World Meets Nobody Halfway”

May 1st, 2009 · 1 Comment

Let Microkhan go on record as saying that we’ve enjoyed at least one frequently derided Sylvester Stallone flick (the campy-yet-terrifying Cobra). But when it comes to Over the Top, we have no choice but to agree with the masses. Like so many of Sly’s 1980s vehicles, it’s all-too-easy to envision the movie-exec brainstorming that went […]

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