WEB BOHEMIAN
(Tuesday, August 28, 2012)
(1)- APOCALYPTIC THINKING -- None of our threatened eco-pocalypses
have played out as predicted. Some came partly true; some were averted by
action; some were wholly chimerical. This raises difficult questions.
(2)- WINE RECOMMENDATIONS -- Here are 12 great American values, all
$20 or less, all a pleasure to drink. Two cabernet sauvignon; one chardonnay;
one pinot noir and one merlot. Also a pinot grigio, a marsanne, a pinot blanc…
(3)- POLITICAL GIVING -- More money is spent on TV advertising in
the presidential race by social welfare nonprofits, known as 501(c)(4)s for
their tax code section, than by any other type of independent group.
(4)- ANALYSIS & ADVICE – An attempt to come to terms with Measure
for Measure as a reply to Machiavelli is examined and found flawed and
misleading. Suggestions for reading Shakespeare are productively offered.
(5)- RIGHTS -- What we call rights are no more than what the law concedes
to one party or another in any given conflict of interest. There are no rights
in nature, only in a society with a legal system and police force.
(6)- THE PALLET -- Pallets are as integral to globalization as containers. They
are everywhere: There are said to be billions circulating through global supply
chain (2 billion in the U.S. alone).
(7)- THE POET’S POET -- Louis MacNeice, like others in the 1930S
Auden Group, adopted modes of expression, and public personas, that drew from
an elite literary culture.
(8)- HISTORY’S NOT HARD SCIENCE -- It’s tempting to rely on an
important-seeming analysis instead of drowning in the quagmire of nuance and
incomplete information. To think black and white instead of grey. But…
(9)- SIDEWALK NEUROSCIENCE -- Scratching, hiccupping, yawns, sneezing
and farting: as far beyond serious scientific study as these vulgar, noisome
behaviors might seem, they have much to tell us about being human.
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