Wednesday, October 3, 2012

WEB BOHEMIAN (Wednesday, October 3, 2012)

(1)- FAST FOOD PLANS -- In the never ending quest to boost sales, fast-food chains find it far too limiting to accept classic nutritional concepts (like only three meals per day). Here’s to more meals daily.

(2)- END OF THE LINE -- Trains do awful things to people they hit, wreaking gruesome havoc that haunts those who work the rails. Preventing accidental deaths is challenging. The suicides are unstoppable.

(3)- BOO! -- When you're startled, you may jump a little bit. But with a condition called hyperekplexia, (startle disease) this reaction is so exaggerated sufferers are often injured and even killed when surprised.

(4)- NEWLY FOUND -- A Roman trading ship from the time of the Caesars has been discovered off the coast of Italy, reportedly in such good condition that some of the food may still be preserved inside the storage jars.

(5)- QUERY -- In Swift’s famous satire, Gulliver is so disgusted with human nature he prefers to be a horse. In rejecting humanity and its lying nature, Does Gulliver gain enlightenment or is he lying to himself.

(6)- ARTISTIC TYRANNY –- We who live in the Western world at the present time continue to suffer under the reign of a great tyranny — the tyranny of artistic modernism. The modernist aesthetic dominates our age.

(7)- UNIVERSE IN 3D -- Ever wished you could zoom through a hyper-realistic map of the universe at many times the speed of light? Now you can. Here’s the newly released largest-ever 3D map of the universe.

(8)- NEW HUMAN SPECIES -- Researchers studying north Kenya fossils identify a new human species that lived two million years ago. The discoveries suggest at least three distinct human species co-existed.

(9)- STUART STEVENS -- Mitt Romney’s top strategist is a steroid-dabbling, screenwriting bon vivant. He approaches politics as an all-consuming, quasi-physical challenge he can play for laughs when the election’s over.

POLITICAL CARTOON

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