Monday, October 8, 2012

WEB BOHEMIAN (Monday, October 8, 2012)

(1)- BIBI BULLIES AMERICA -- Benjamin Netanyahu’s brazen, election-season attack on the Obama administration shows Bibi is desperately worried—in a way that most of Israel’s professional security experts are not.

(2)- OLD FASHIONED NEWSPAPER WAR – After Newhouse said it would gut the still-profitable New Orleans Times-Picayune’s newsroom and slash publication to three days a week, the Baton Rouge Advocate responds.

(3)- TASTES LIKE CHICKEN -- Chicken is very broad across the evolutionary spectrum: various birds, of course, but also snakes, lizards, small mammals, certain fish. What creature first tasted like chicken?

(4)- THE REAL TOM SAWYER – He was a customs inspector, volunteer fireman, special policeman and bona fide local hero. In contrast to the lanky Mark Twain, Sawyer, three years older, was stocky and round-faced.

(5)- CHARLES SANDERS PIERCE -- He was the most brilliant of all eccentrics and one of the most difficult; Mathematics, logic, philosophy, science, semiotics. He was extraordinary. And then came Jacques Derrida…

(6)- PAULINE KAEL -- Kael’s taste tended toward quick pacing and a down-to-earth story that could grab an audience and make it feel something. A movie didn’t have to be hysterically funny to win her over…

(7)- OF ROBERT DUNCAN -- Ever since The Iliad and The Odyssey were ascribed to Homer, the blind poet has served as a metaphor for the ability to catch sight of things beyond mere appearance.

(8)- THE EMERGING VIEW OF WOMEN -- Instead of being a castrating, unmarriageable harpy, today’s reproductively and economically free female is the trigger for a challenging but exciting new social order.

(9)- THE OLDE DICTIONARY -- In 1934, Webster’s was idolized as a symbol of middle-class respectability. It had a shamelessly antimacassar essence, eschewing entries for Babe Ruth, illustrating “limp” with “as in a limp cravat,” and offering facile and downright offensive ethnic judgments:

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