WEB BOHEMIAN
(Tuesday, November 13, 2012)
(1)- REFUSNIK
-- Bagging your own groceries is a pernicious tradition imported from France,
where people have a history of cravenly submitting to authority. Conversely,
America was founded on the concept of service.
(2)- PRESIDENTIAL
DNA HACKS -- The U.S. government is surreptitiously collecting the DNA of
world leaders, and is reportedly protecting that of Barack Obama. Decoded,
these genetic blueprints could…
(3)- LIES --
We all cheat by a “fudge factor” of roughly 15 percent, regardless of how
likely we are to get caught; a few of us advance gradually to bigger and bigger
fudges, often driven by social pressures.
(4)- CAFFINE
KILL LIMIT -- A lawsuit over the death of a 14-year-old girl raises new
questions about how much caffeine is too much--and what other nefarious factors
might come into play.
(5)- MOVIE
FLATULENCE -- This farting scene isn't just hilarious, it's historical ...
according to reports, the ass-music scene was the first ever flatulence gag to
be featured in a major motion picture.
(6)- HISTORICAL
MOON MISHAP -- A flattened 1,800-mile-wide section of the moon (the moon's
Procellarum basin) was likely caused by a collision with an asteroid the size
of Austria, Japanese researchers say.
(7)- NEW
THINGS TO WORRY ABOUT -- Nine new species of tree-dwelling tarantulas have
been identified in central and eastern Brazil, researchers say, bringing the
total in the area to 16 species.
(8)- LEWIS
LAPHAM – The cavalry charge he leads is said to be one against heedlessness;
against the historically illiterate, heedless hordesmen of the digital
revolution ignorant of our intellectual heritage.
(9)- JACQUES DERRIDA --
Language was not just a game for Derrida, it was also a method of seduction. He
was a seducer on a heroic, even epic scale, right up there with Sartre and
Camus, possibly heading more…
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