Wednesday, October 24, 2012

WEB BOHEMIAN (Wednesday, October 24, 2012)

(1)- CAMILLE PAGLIA WRITES -- Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years.

(2)- IF YOU’VE EVER ARGUED POLITICS THEN YOU KNOW -- Hume was right: “Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.”

(3)- SELF-LOVE MAKES THE WORLD GO ROUND -- But, alongside cooperation, could self-love give birth to deception? Could the imperative of self-regard be so great, in fact, as to lead to self-deceit?

(4)- WHITHER WHOM? -- Since “whom” is becoming less common, many people can't use it properly even when they are aiming for Formal grammar. The unease over “whom” just makes people avoid it more.

(5)- ALTERNATE AND ADDED PUNCTUATION --  Here are 13 little-known punctuation marks we should be using. Sometimes, says Adrienne Crezo at Mental Floss, regular periods, commas, and apostrophes won't do.

(6)- TRAIN CRASH CONSEQUENCES -- Scandal, of one kind or another, has become the backbeat to China’s rise. Never have the citizens of the People’s Republic learned so much about the perks of those who run it.

(7)- A 2007 REPORT FROM WIRED -- How the CIA used a fake science fiction film to sneak six Americans out of revolutionary Iran. The declassified story that became Ben Affleck's Argo.

(8)- STORY BEHIND THE STORY -- President Obama saw it as a “50–50” proposition. Admiral McRaven, mission commander, knew something would go wrong. So how did the raid that killed bin Laden get green-lighted?

(9)- HISTORY’S GREATEST FAKE ART SCAM -- So how did a self-described German hippie pull off one of the biggest, most lucrative cons in art-world history? And how did he get nailed?

POLITICAL CARTOON

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