Tuesday February 2, 2010

WEB BOHEMIAN (Tuesday February 2, 2010)
(1)- WOMAN SCORNED -- Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned and then there's this fuming mistress catapulting retribution into a new orbit by plastering the country with billboards that show her nuzzling a married New York business honcho.

(2)- KIDS THINK -- A Brit survey of kids suggests 26 percent of the country's under-16 population erroneously believe bacon comes from sheep and 29 percent believe oats grow on trees...

(3)- DOG REPORT -- The good news: Dogs are as smart as 2-year-old kids, can comprehend more than 150 words (although "super dogs" can understand 250), and can count up to four or five. The bad news: They are "consciously deceptive."

(4)- NO ANSWER – The cosmos is eerily quiet. After decades of straining our radio ears for a whisper of civilizations beyond Earth, we have heard nothing. No reassuring message of universal peace. No helpful hint to avert global disaster.

(5)- PERSUASION -- Several dozen university students occupied a brewery near Gothenburg in western Sweden on Tuesday in their long-standing effort to convince the brewery to build a pipeline to carry beer to the students’ union.

(6)- MAP – This map, created by a visiting Italian-born Jesuit priest, Matteo Ricci, and apparently commissioned by the court of Emperor Wanli in 1602 was a tribute to the land Ricci had lived in since 1582, and in which he would die in 1610.

(7)- LOT IN LIFE – Many young women driven by poverty into domestic service in early modern England fell victim to predatory masters and ended up with illegitimate children, only to be ejected from households into penury or, worse.

(8)- MISREPRESENTING MEDIA -- Media outlets often call everything looting and thereby incite hostility toward the sufferers as well as a hysterical overreaction on the part of the armed authorities.

(9)- FAME PAIN -- Doesn't the hypochondriac—anxious, death- and age-obsessed, hypersensitive and self-absorbed—sound suspiciously familiar? Filleted and stitched by the surgeon, embalmed in Botox, our contemporary celebrities ...

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