Tuesday, July 31, 2012

WEB BOHEMIAN (Tuesday, July 31, 2012)

(1)- BILLIE HOLLIDAY IN 1943 – From an article: The creamy lips, the oily eyelids, the violent perfume—and in her voice the tropical l’s and r’s. Her presence, her singing created a large, swelling anxiety.

(2)- THE NORWAY MASSACRE STORY -- A heavily armed man dressed as a police officer appeared on the beach of a youth summer camp. The kids had no way of knowing he was targeting them for the ills of Europe.

(3)- 17th CENTURY COFFEE MARKETING --  The claim was coffee could aid and/or prevent: indigestion, headaches, lethargy, drowsiness, arthritis, sore eyes, cough, consumption, "spleen," dropsy, gout, scurvy, and…

(4)- FASCINATING D-DAY PHOTOS – Herein a series of photos from the World War Two Normandy invasion of France. Photos include some from the Ken Burns documentary on the War.

(5)- ENOUGH -- Always-on, multitasking work environments kill productivity, dampen creativity, and make us unhappy," notes a recent article in the research publication of the giant global consulting firm.

(6)- ZOMBIE BEES -- Biologists see honeybees in California and South Dakota displaying "zombie-like" behavior: These insects wander away from their hives at night and shamble blindly around in circles.

(7)- NOT UNPRECEDENTED -- There’s more to discuss about surface melting significance in relation to Greenland ice loss and a rising contribution to the oceans and sea-level rise. But one recent report was misleading.

(8)- ENVIRONMENTAL DOMINATION -- When leftwing French philosopher Pascal Bruckner assails the “despotic” politics of environmental fear he should expect a dressing down from his climate change-conscious comrades. But…

(9)- GEOFFREY NUNBERG -- He usefully notes that the word incivility “doesn’t belong to everyday English moral vocabulary like polite, rude, and courteous; it is a word we learn from op-ed pieces, not from family.

POLITICAL CARTOON

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