Friday, August 31, 2012

WEB BOHEMIAN (Friday, August 31, 2012)

(1)- EARTHLY CONCERNS -- The Catholic church is as big as any company in America. Bankruptcy cases have shed some light on its finances and their mismanagement. The picture that emerges is not flattering.

(2)- SCHMOOZE OR LOSE -- Obama doesn’t like cozying up to billionaires. Could it cost him the election? Three billionaires have contributed at least a quarter of a million dollars to the largest pro-Obama Super PAC.

(3)- MELVILLE – He never fully recovered from the disappointing response to Moby-Dick. In 1857, upon the suggestion of his wife, Melville went to Europe and the Middle East in the hopes of finding cheer and clarity.

(4)-PETER SLOTERDIJK – He’s never met a neologism he doesn’t like, is an immodest, unfashionable thinker. But when he doesn’t convince, he provokes. Sloterdijk has not been shy of controversy.

(5)- THE ECONOMIST -- If the once-great redwoods of American weekly journalism are all dead, dying or seriously ill, a smaller, older English oak survives and flourishes, possibly because…

(6)- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- The social sciences are indeed changing. But the next question is: is the object of inquiry (humanity) also undergoing profound change? It's not just how we study it…

(7)- HOW AMERICA CUSSES -- A Ukrainian-based web development firm scanned tweets posted daily from across the U.S. to generate the density of  F-bomb-laden tweets as they were distributed geographically… have a look.

(8)- FEAR OF A BLACK PRESIDENT -- For most of his term in office, Obama has declined to talk about the ways in which race complicates the American present and, in particular, his own presidency. But then…

(9)- CONVERT -- Not long ago, the atheist movement was the preserve of a few eccentric gadflies like Madalyn Murray O’Hair. But over the past decade it has matured into something much larger and less cranky.

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