Studies show that people are consistently bad at describing themselves, so I'll try to be objective.
I consider myself a citizen of the world.
I am a scientist by training.
I love to express my opinions.
I come from a Muslim background.
I was born in Pakistan, but currently live in the US.
Rationality and pragmatism define everything I do (and write). If I suggest something, I will try my best to back it up with facts whenever possible. //Yesterday, I wrote about how I think that the Bush-McCain foreign policy can only end with World War III. I received a few angry comments about how it’s apparently important for us to stay in the Middle East and “fight terrorism;” of course, none of those comments addressed my actual point, which was that our […]
Popularity: 18% [?]
//I have news for the Department of Defense: our military escapades aren’t working. We’ve sacrificed thousands of lives and hundreds of billions of dollars, and all we’ve accomplished is to spawn more anti-American sentiment. I understand the problems associated with “negotiating with terrorists”… but we can’t possibly knock them all out. The […]
Popularity: 20% [?]
//One of the inherent problems with democracy is the fact that it’s too easy for a corrupt leader to seduce the population. As long as the country maintains the farce of a popular election, the world won’t bother them as much as they’ll bother a benevolent autocrat. Just look at Russia and China…
Recently, Russia and […]
Popularity: 20% [?]
//The spirit of the American Dream is dying and I think we should save it… maybe even try to spread it around the world (read the first paragraph of this article if you don’t know what the American Dream is).
The traditional American success story is, by no means, extinct. But the more I look around, […]
Popularity: 18% [?]
//Among the random pointless stipulations in American law is the constitutional requirement that the President must be a natural-born US citizen. Personally, I don’t see how that makes any difference in a person’s ability to run the country (i.e. what if a person migrated to the US when he was 4 years old? […]
Popularity: 20% [?]
//For those of you who have never heard about microcredit, it’s a great idea. It’s surprisingly simple: you essentially just loan a couple of hundred dollars to somebody in a poverty-stricken country. That amount of money may seem inconsequential to an American businessman… but in some countries, it’s enough to rebuild a person’s life. The […]
Popularity: 21% [?]
//It seems that BMW will be sending 500 electric Mini Coopers to California sometime in the near future. To the untrained ear, this sounds promising and exciting… it’s about time that we start accepting the use of clean energy (which we can get from water power, wind power, solar power, or nuclear power) in our […]
Popularity: 18% [?]
//Obama has been carrying as much as 90% of the black vote in many states. It’s no secret that many people vote for him solely because of the color of his skin (of course, there are probably just as many people who won’t vote for him because of the color of his skin). And they […]
Popularity: 23% [?]
//Everybody occasionally feels depressed. Relationships… school… work… family… there is a plethora of reasons. You may be overwhelmed with more tasks than you have time for… or you may be struggling with a core belief in your basic life philosophy… or you may be upset because no way exists for you to get 7 hours […]
Popularity: 20% [?]
//Most Americans believe what they see on TV, and rightfully so. The following statements are true and the media loves to remind us that they’re true:
Palestinian “freedom fighters” occasionally kill Israelis (they ignore the fact that Israelis kill Palestinian civilians more often than Palestinians kill Israeli civilians).
Pakistanis often riot when the US’s favorite political party […]
Popularity: 17% [?]
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