Friday, October 26, 2012

WEB BOHEMIAN (Friday, October 26, 2012)

(1)- ANSWERS -- How did a group of men dismissed as cranks and called neoliberals change world politics for good? Daniel Stedman Jones is the latest writer to tackle the issue. His response is finer than most.

(2)- LINSANITY: THE SEQUEL -- A year ago, nobody knew Jeremy Lin… But now, with a new NBA season about to start, it's proving time: can this soft-spoken boy wonder lead a franchise of his own?

(3)- KAILASH ICE -- Of the many sacred mountains of Buddhism, the holiest is Mount Kailash in Western Tibet, where the Ganges, the Brahmaputra, the Indus and the Sutlej all have their source… Here’s it’s story.

(4)- AN AVENUE OF VICE -- On Queens’ stubbornly unchanging Roosevelt Avenue, where immigrants pay $2 a song to grind against hired dancers and shuttered houses of prostitution became rolling brothel-vans…

(5)- WRITING NOVELS -- Given the difficulty of convincing some readers that fiction conveys social and political truth, it is unsurprising that thoughtful writers with a social conscience have cultivated a mixed genre.

(6)- SCREW THE VET -- Anti-veteran sentiments – though sporadic and scattered – emerge at some American colleges as thousands of veterans enroll with their tuition fees fully covered by the post-9/11 GI Bill.

(7)- CONFIDENTIAL INFORMANTS -- Informants are the foot soldiers in the government’s war on drugs. By some estimates, up to eighty per cent of all drug cases in America involve them. Cops say it’s cost effective.

(8)- ARAB WOES -- Secret cinema gently subverts Saudi Arabia's puritanism. In a country where culture can be declared sinful and cinemas were shut down in the 1970s, just showing a film can be revolutionary.

(9)- THIS IS THE RACE THAT REALLY COUNTS -- The Republicans need to turn four states to seize control of the Senate (three if they also win the White House). To turn Montana, they need to turn only half of 3,562 voters, plus one.

POLITICAL CARTOON

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