Tuesday, June 30, 2009

WEB BOHEMIAN (Tuesday, June 30, 2009)
(1)- GOT A RECORD? -- A pair of New York men said their Web site, the Universal Record Database, was created so everyone can find the "world record holder in them." The owner said everybody dreams he has a world record in him.

(2)- CHE'S GRANDDAUGHTER -- The granddaughter of Cuban revolutionary leader Ernesto "Che" Guevara is at the forefront of another revolution — for vegetarianism. She poses semi-nude in a PETA campaign boosting "the vegetarian revolution."

(3)- NEXT UP -- Some who live in clusters with multiple sex partners say legalzing marriage for polyamorous partners is the next civil rights movement. The polyamory movement grew out of the communes of the 1960s and the swingers of the 1970s.

(4)- CHANGE -- In the digital age, with its overabundance of information, the modern newsweekly is in a particularly poignant position. Designed nearly a century ago to be all things to all people, it Chaplin-esquely tries to straddle too much.

(5)- COSY PHILOSOPHER -- In a first volume of Isaiah Berlin letters, covering the years 1928 to 1946, he declared a positive dislike of nature, suggesting that love of sublime landscapes was linked with reactionary romanticism.

(6)- TEACHING CONVICTS -- My students were singularly unprepared for a class on abstract thought. Many of them had never heard of philosophy and few even knew what the word meant. They were in my class to experience an element of novelty.

(7)-A GOOD BO0K -- "The East, the West, and Sex" is the best sort of book about sex: It is replete with anecdotes from history that titillate as they inform and observations on human nature that amuse as they illuminate.

(8)- OJ REVEALED -- A book by O.J.'s last lady friend is making the rounds. Christine Prody, the blonde waitress who took up where his murdered blond wife, Nicole, left off, is now looking to rat on 13 years of manipulation and rage.

(9)- PARTHENON -- Today's solstice is commemorated above by a well-planned picture of our five billion year old Sun rising behind the 2,500 year old Parthenon in Greece. Trees and birds occupy the foreground.

POLITICAL COMMENTARY

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