Thursday, August 23, 2012

WEB BOHEMIAN (Thursday, August 23, 2012)

(1)- NOT A NICE GUY – Steve Jobs has been dead for nearly a year, but the biography about him is still a best seller. Indeed, his life story has emerged as an odd sort of holy scripture for entrepreneurs. He was…

(2)-ROGER KIMBALL – He’s among America’s most learned commentators on intellectual history, contemporary politics, fine art, and architecture, and wrote stellar exposés of left-wing university corruption.

(3)- WITHERING AFFLUENCE -- The future of affluence is not what it was. Americans have long believed—it’s part of our national character—that our economic well-being will constantly increase. Maybe not, anymore.

(4)- FOOTBALL RETHINK -- Baseball’s spring training is all about the smell of freshly cut grass, about renewal, about being eternally young, about hope. Football training is about fighting for your right to exist.

(5)- SOUTHERN UNDERBELLY -- The other night, in order to feel close to my deceased friend Lewis “Buddy” Nordan, I started rereading his inspired novel about the murder of Emmett Till in 1954. He knew the murderers.

(6)- WE NEED TO BEHAVE BETTER – Evolutionary pressures have not developed a psychology that enables us to cope with the moral problems our new power creates. Our political and economic systems only exacerbate this.

(7)- SPORT -- About 150 men took part in the recent annual Alpine finger wrestling championship in small southern German town. The unusual competition is essentially a one-finger tug-of-war.

(8)- NEWS REPORT -- Deer genitals are used in alternative medicine as an aphrodisiac in China thought to treat impotence and frigidity. Officials have detained a Chinese woman smuggling dried deer genitals in her purse.

(9)- SKEPTIC REPORT -- A woman born missing a finger and thumb has grown them back – albeit as part of a phantom limb. This extraordinary occurrence shows that our brain contains a functional body image map.

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