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I read all I could find.

I dug offline for information to support and validate what I wrote.

I devoted a few hours each day to learn stuff if that learning was only to defend my position.

In a way, it helped me discover what I was most passionate about.

Then something changed.

I no longer read news and articles on the Internet like before.

I've been struck by either a severe strain of cynicism or my spirit has withered.

Okay, that was my dramatic best.

My incessant hollering about sodomies such as pseudo secularism have begun to sound pointless to me.

I even contemplate shutting my blog down.

Version 1.0 of my blog was a disorderly heap of assorted links and disjointed muddles of bombastic text dripping with adjectives.

Now read the previous sentence again.

I hadn't the faintest clue about post-1947 Indian politics.

My half-baked brain idolized people I now classify under Pseudo Secularism Hall of Shame.

It taught me that the coin has two sides.

That there's something really deep behind the dreaded Hindu Fundamentalism.

That India actually needs to revert to the fundamentals of Hinduism - Hindu Fundamentalism is one of the finest contemporary political oxymorons - to regain its primacy in the world.

That the Indian media is lazy, dishonest, and actually curbs free speech.

Which is where Varsha Bhosle s...

Until their breakdowns, Prior and Wood belonged to that exclusive fraternity: rare Cubs who lived up to the hype.

Poor mechanics have victimized Wood, but he seems more competitive about dealing with pain than Prior.

In the last three years, 'Kid K' fought through five trips to the disabled list and shoulder surgeries to make 36 starts, but now seems reconciled to a dubious future in the bullpen.

Neither pitcher will ever recapture the magic of 2003 so it's time to snip the umbilical cord.

Unfortunately, the obsessive Cubs, catering to their unreasonably optimistic fans, continue to fantasize.

Instead of facing reality they swoon over past accomplishments.

Get over it.

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