Actually I check each episode and usually they divide the time equally between law and order, giving half an hour for each. I also love the gallows humor in the series. I miss Jerry Orbach though. The series hasn’t been the same after his death.

Back to the topic, Wall-E is on an entirely different level. I can’t even imagine comparing the two. KFP was funnier than I thought it would be. So it kinda took me by surprise.

Ashutosh, I loved Ratatouille too so dunno why Sampada slept through it. Perhaps like some, she couldn’t get past the rat image :) And you really must watch Wall·E.

Aditya, now that’s what I call a cool company. Hope they don’t expect you to ‘make up’ the hours. Kung Fu Panda although funny now pales in comparison to the genius that is Wall·E, story and animation-wise.

Yesterday our company took us interns out to watch Kung-Fu panda at the Alamo drafthouse [during office hrs -- now how cool was that!]. It was funnier and better than I expected.

So it was an animated feature filled week personally. :)

S

PS: Rajith wants a Wall-E toy.

That rediff article a jumble of diverse ideas. Most of them wrongly interpreted.

“Individualism” was the cause?
These girl made a pact on getting pregnant together - if this does not denote the antithesis of individualism I don’t know what would.

If American society was truly “individualistic” as the writer claims then the girls couldn’t have counted on their public school daycare center to help them out in their moronic adventure. Heck, the public school system is in itself counter to claims of an apparently “individualistic”, “everyone on their own” US society.

I think this one statement by the writer,
“Responsibility is the bedrock of discipline, be it at the individual, the national, or the international level. When a society is built purely on individual rights — as the American society has been — it leads to massive indiscipline”
summaries his muddleheadedness.

This proliferation of unfettered rights had a two-fold impact on the US economy: one, it led to the government assuming some responsibilities of an individual that would normally be in the hands of the family in other societies, and, two, this led to increased and reckless spending by individuals.

This is where his leap in faith falls flat on its face. “Proliferation of unfettered right” = less government in the lives of an individual. More individual rights is the government assuming less responsibility for an individual by affording the individual more. Yes, the US has a social welfare system that is an economic burden but by the author’s reasoning, most European countries which have far more elaborate social welfare systems should be in ruins by now.
As for “this led to increased and reckless spending by individuals.”, I laugh at this because the author is a CA. He of all people should know that prosperity leads to increased spending. As for reckless, that is a matter of opinion. Perhaps author of aforementioned Rediff article should stick to fudging the account books of multinationals and movie stars.

…and Rediff.com for Best Design among News sites !! :D