Tuesday February 23, 2010

WEB BOHEMIAN (Tuesday February 23, 2010)
(1)- THE MATING GAME -- The feminist-driven academic and journalistic culture celebrates that yesterday’s “loose” women are today’s “liberated” women, able to proudly “explore their sexuality” without “getting punished for their lust.”

(2)- HOAXED -- Our friend Bernard-Henri Lévy, France's most dashing thinker, reportedly has egg on his face this month after it was discovered that he had fallen for a well-known literary hoax. The story is delicious.

(3)- ANGER ISSUES -- Lilburn Police are investigating what may have caused a man to walk into a Walmart and destroy 29 flat-screen televisions. He grabbed a metal baseball bat destroyed the TVs on display in the electronics section.

(4)- AIRLINE SAFETY – Kulua Air has decorated one of its planes as an idiot's guide to aviation -- labeling things like the engines and where the pilot sits; and covering the surface of their 737 with interior details.

(5)- IDENTITY THEFT -- An upstart Trojan horse program has decided to take on its much-larger rival by stealing data and then removing the malicious program from infected computers, giving Spy Eye access to usernames, passwords.

(6)- CHALLENGER DESCENT -- NASA’s intensive, meticulous studies of every facet of that explosion, comparing what happened to other blowups of aircraft and spacecraft, finally led some investigators to a mind-numbing conclusion.

(7)- STAYING SLIM -- Teenage girls are wrecking their health with 'size zero' diets, according to an official report. They are shunning protein and dairy foods in an apparent effort to keep as thin as their celebrity role models.

(8)- ANCIENT WRITING -- The decision by a London university to axe the UK's only chair in palaeography has been met by outrage from the world's most eminent classicists. John Crace on why the study of ancient writings matters.

(9)- BRIT DEFENSE SCANDAL -- The Ministry of Defense defends its use of more than 100 pigs in explosive tests in Wiltshire, claiming The tests "saved many lives" in Iraq and Afghanistan due to improvements in post-traumatic techniques.

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