Thursday, June 3, 2010

WEB BOHEMIAN (Thursday, June 3, 2010)
(1)- TV SPOKES -- we want to know from you which TV ad character/spokesthing you think should be next in line for retirement. To help you along, we've whittled it down to a handful of candidates.

(2)- WHAT NEXT – What if the Supreme Court overturns health care reform, or at least the individual mandate (it's not clear what happens to the rest of the law if the mandate goes down; this might invalidate the entire law).

(3)- DISPOSAL REPORT -- The body found encased in concrete in a oil barrel on Toronto’s lakeshore was that of a Thornhill man with ties to Asian organized crime. Quang Lu went missing in 2007, shortly after returning from China.

(4)- BEE SAFETY -- Rescue crews used fire hoses to douse a bee swarm after a fatal truck crash releasing 17 million of the insects. Some 7,000 bee hives was involved in the four-vehicle crash about 35 miles south of Minneapolis.

(5)- HOW DID HUMANS TRIUMPH -- How did one rare predatory ape 45,000 years ago happen to turn into a planet dominator? The answer lies in an epochal collision of creativity.

(6)- SAYS HE WAS RIGHT -- From hero of the left to neocon turncoat, and still battling on: Christopher Hitchens talks to Decca Aitkenhead about old arguments and his new memoir.

(7)- ANSWERS -- Was Martin Heidegger a "Nazi philosopher"? The secret transcripts of Heidegger's notorious seminar "On the Essence and Concepts of Nature, History and the State" have been published for the first time.

(8)- 3RD WAVE FEMINISM -- In his new book, Paco Underhill, a longtime student of consumer behavior, evinces a particular aversion to the word woman. He prefers instead "the female of the species" or "the female of the household" or "the female of the house."

(9)- MUSLIM -- Like attacking the Catholic Church during its heyday of killing heretics and infidels, criticizing Islamism today is not for those who jump at the sound of bubble wrap cracking. Consider author Ibn Warraq.

POLITICAL COMMENTARY

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