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This hilarious Indian parody of the 2004 election featuring Amitabh Bachnan as a third party candidate is a must see. The depictions of Bush, Kerry, Cheney and Bachnan are dead on and it includes some Bollywood-style song and dance numbers. Make sure to watch all the way through the end of the credits. You'll get a nice surprise. Dishoom.

I love my Spartans. I really do. But they have no business being ranked 10th in the USA TODAY/ESPN Top 25 basketball poll. Did anyone pay attention to last season besides me? They lost to a Nevada team with just one legitimate one player in the NCAA tournament. (Thanks to my wedding, I was spared the agony of watching that live -- no sports bars in Chennai with the NCAA tournament on. But it looked just awful on tape when I returned. Talk about coming down from a honeymoon high.) And they couldn't defend the perimeter or rebound. This year's edition should be better, especially with freshman Drew Neitzel taking over at the point. But they're not the No. 10 in the country. Not yet.

If you're looking for a good scare this weekend, check out MelanieGriffith.com. Absolutely horrifying. And if the Web site wasn't bad enough, then go back and watch some of her movies and wonder why she merits this much room in cyberspace.

Talk about an unhappy lot. The back page of the New York Daily News sums it up. What are Yankees fans going to do now that they can't chant 1918?

OK. That was just to piss off my Yankee-loving friends. But seriously, what are they going to talk about in New England now that the Red Sox have won the World Series. Topics 1, 1A, 2, 2A and 3 are all gone. The Red Sox nation is so used to talking losing and misery that they don't have a fully developed conversational repertoire. When the euphoria ends, Boston will be a quiet town. Though judging by news.google.com, that won't happen soon. They're at 5,163 and counting on tonight's win alone.