Wednesday, March 24, 2010

WEB BOHEMIAN (Wednesday, March 24, 2010)
(1)- TIME TRAVEL -- There are many reasons why we should not waste our time speculating about the possibility of time travel. Some are obvious; others are less so. The most obvious problems arise from the contradictions that result.

(2)- BIPHASIC SLEEP -- People who catch 40 winks or an even longer nap during the day are often viewed to be lazy, less productive, and possessing inadequate sleep. Not so, according to recent brain research, that may benefit leaders.

(3)- ISLAND/YACHT -- One of the many stresses of being a billionaire is the difficulty in choosing between purchasing a yacht or an island. Happily, designers have unveiled plans for a "moving island" that renders the conundrum redundant.

(4)- UNUSUAL CANDIDACY -- Not satisfied with living in Florida, Jonathon "The Impaler" Sharkey wants to move to Washington, D.C. to become the nation's first vampire president. "The Impaler" claims he's a direct descendent of Dracula.

(5)- EXPENSIVE TASTE -- A golden retriever swallowed a three-carat diamond inside a Rockville, Md., jewelry store, taking a $20,000 bite out of the business' inventory. A Veterinarian advised them to let nature take it course.

(6)- MARINES AND NEW FOODS -- Camp Pendleton—a sprawling, 125,000 acre base 38 miles from downtown San Diego, had been expanding its cuisine, adding Mexican, Chinese and soul-food places. Now comes lamb, flat bread, and chickpea.

(7)- CHECHNYA -- A deadly insurgency, which the Kremlin has pronounced all but defeated, perseveres in the mountains that have sheltered rebels for centuries, and is spilling out beyond Chechnya’s borders into Russia’s North Caucasus.

(8)- THE PROBLEM -- Within a generation, the world’s population will almost certainly be stable, and is very likely to be falling by mid-century. The problem is consumption.

(9)- PEARL BUCK -- How does a woman overcome the suffocating messages of her culture to become an artist? In Burying the Bones, Hilary Spurling unearths the creative roots of the Nobel Prize-winning novelist Pearl Buck.

POLITICAL COMMENTARY

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