Wednesday February 24, 2010

WEB BOHEMIAN (Wednesday February 24, 2010)
(1)- DEFENDING ABUNDANCE -- Today’s critics of prosperity are guarded about expressing their views directly, instead hiding behind climate change, ideas about ‘moral limits’, and the elevation of happiness over GDP.

(2)- ABOUT JEFFERSON -- The war must have seemed very far away from Monticello on those evenings in 1779 when Thomas Jefferson joined a Hessian prisoner of war in a violin duet, with Martha Jefferson accompanying them on the pianoforte.

(3)- GALBRAITH RETURNS -- No sooner had Lehman Brothers collapsed than the printing presses started to roll out copies of Galbraith’s book on the debacle of 1929, The Great Crash. Demand management à la Galbraith is now back.

(4)- ABOUT BIO-ETHECISTS -- First, that they share an absolutist approach to egalitarianism: If all cannot benefit, then none should benefit. Second, as ethicists they presume to know how despairing patients should conduct their private affairs.

(5)- STUTTER STUDY -- A new study brings researchers one step closer to unraveling a medical mystery that has perplexed scientists for thousands of years: What causes people to stutter?

(6)- HOARDING -- Compulsive hoarding is no joke. It can be excruciating, just as any form of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. When you look at the lives of compulsive hoarders, there is no doubt their habits can incapacitate and disable their lives.

(7)- RABBIT KILL – Australian farmers are being urged by authorities to use poison gas, poison baits, fumigation, dogs and even ammonium nitrate explosive to blow up rabbits, as biological controls fail.

(8)- REDFORD GETS REDFORD AWARD -- Robert Redford receives the USC School of Theater's inaugural Robert Redford Award for Engaged Artists, honoring not only the actor's career but his social activism.

(9)- BREACHERS – Breachers are the Marines Corps' answer to the deadliest threat facing NATO troops in Afghanistan: thousands of land mines and roadside bombs, or improvised explosive devices, that litter the Afghan landscape.

POLITICAL COMMENTARY

ENDIT