Saturday/Sunday, April 17-18, 2010

WEB BOHEMIAN Weekend Edition (Saturday/Sunday, April 17-18, 2010)
(1)- FASTFOOD ADS – While RetireRonald.com blasts the McDonald's clown for luring kids into unhealthy lifestyles, two mental-health organizations express anger and dismay over a Burger King advertisement they believe is in poor taste.

(2)- EQUALITY MARCH -- About two dozen women march topless from Portland's Longfellow Square to Tommy's Park in an effort to erase what they see as a double standard on male and female nudity.

(3)- VERY IMPORTANT -- Notable scientists with defined Erdos–Bacon numbers include popular string theorist Brian Greene, who has an Erdos–Bacon number of 5, astronomer Carl Sagan and theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking.

(4)- PULITZER BIO -- A new biography charts Joseph Pulitzer’s path from immigrant cub reporter to newspaper magnate and boss from hell. A century after Pulitzer’s death, the newspaper now promises to end on the scrap heap of American history.

(5)- AUTHORITARIANISM VS THE INTERNET -- Authoritarian rulers understand the power of the internet and actively curtail its impact. A few countries — Burma, Cuba, North Korea, and Turkmenistan — restrict internet access to very few people.

(6)- WARNING -- "We are flattening the landscape of the human psyche," warns Ethan Watters in Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche. "We are engaged in the grand project of Americanizing the world's understanding of the human mind."

(7)- AN EDUCATED MAN – Maurice Bowra was Oxford's Wadham College warden, British Academy president, author of books on ancient Greek literature, and a conversationalist of legendary brilliance.

(8)- NEWS LEDE – A Thai police force has begun taking a monkey dressed in officer's uniform on patrol each day to help improve relations with Muslim separatists.

(9)- PAY LOW TAXES – As you work on your taxes this month, here's something to raise your hackles: Some of the world's biggest, most profitable corporations enjoy a far lower tax rate than you do--that is, if they pay taxes at all.

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