Aryabhata

This is from my People of the Middle Ages section: Mathematician and astronomer, Aryabhata. The Polemic Histrionics of Aryabhata

Why You Should Participate in Dangerous Sports

[Thanks to Deb Whittam for the idea] Women like men with scars. Imagine how turned on they’ll be after you are paralyzed from a rugby injury. Playing a dangerous sport allows you to add the words “TO THE EXTREEEEME” to anything you say and not seem like a hypocrite. Risking your life releases endorphins that […]

Karma’s a Bitch: A Poem

I saw a child living in squalor so I gave her a dollar. . I saw a homeless woman, barely alive so I gave her a five. . I met a poor old man whose health wasn’t good I told him that I “understood”. . When evil fortune took people unawares, I tried to repel […]

Is Your Hygiene Bad? Here are the Warning Signs

Your bed-sheets look like the Shroud of Turin… You friends can tell, with great accuracy, which chair you were sitting in… a week after you sat in it. You are given a hazmat suit and asked to wear it inside out… You find a truffle growing in your navel. After your dog licks you for […]

Why I Cannot Help You

If I help you, we’ll develop an emotional bond and then you’ll hurt me like all the others. If I try to help you and fail, it will devastate my self-esteem. If I help you, I’ll feel obligated to help those who see me help you, for fairness sake; then, I’ll have to help the […]