Saturday/Sunday, July 4-5, 2009

WEB BOHEMIAN Weekend Edition (Saturday/Sunday, July 4-5, 2009)
(1)- SWEDISH KOPS -- By going above and beyond the call of duty, two undercover Swedish police officers exposed a prostitution ring stretching from Stockholm north to Gävle in eastern Sweden, the Metro newspaper reports.

(2)- LIVE LONGER?? -- Canadians who are slightly overweight live longer than people of normal weight, according to a new study that confirms similar findings from the U.S. The study results appear online in the journal Obesity.

(3)- NO TUB TWEETING – Web 2.0 can do a lot of things, but it doesn't change the laws of physics, particularly in regards to electrical transmission. To wit: A teenage girl has died, electrocuted after dropping her laptop in the bathtub.

(4)- ACCIDENT REPORT -- A wild turkey landed inside the cab of a manure-hauling tractor trailer, startling the driver and sending the truck rolling into a ditch off a northern New York road.

(5)- HITLER'S TREE -- The towering tree is believed to have been Adolf Hitler's gift to the occupied town of Jaslo — planted to the sound of a Nazi band during World War II. Town authorities now want it cut down to make way for a new roundabout.

(6)- BILL BUCKLEY -- Riding motorbikes without a helmet, flying planes while half asleep—not to mention discussing books he’d never read and using words he didn’t understand—William F. Buckley courted adventure in all that he did.

(7)- GREAT MEMOIRS -- The Duc de Saint-Simon, like Voltaire, was a courtier at Louis XIV's Versailles, and his memoirs, which took him a dozen years to complete and were not published until 1788, are the most famous memoirs ever written.

(8)- INTELLIGENCE -- A number of scholars, including L.L. Thurstone and more recently Robert J. Sternberg, have argued that intelligence has been defined too narrowly. Here's a discussion.

(9)-WRITERS' SECRET -- Writers do not do a great deal of writing. We may devote a large number of hours per day to writing, but very little of that time is spent typing the words of a poem, essay or story or scribbling them onto paper.

POLITICAL COMMENTARY

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