July 2010
16 posts
“YOUTH
Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter...”
– Samuel Ullman
Workplace Bullying - Time →
Bosses may abuse because they have impossibly high standards, are insecure or have not been properly socialized. But some simply enjoy it. Recent brain-scan research has shown that bullies are wired differently. When they see a victim in pain, it triggers parts of their brain associated with pleasure.
Worker abuse is a widespread problem — in a 2007 Zogby poll, 37% of American adults said...
“A nationalist is one who thinks solely, or mainly, in terms of competitive...”
– George Orwell
Unidentified Narrative Object (UNO) →
As described by Indrajit Hazra, Indian writer @ Hindustan Times, in November, 2008:
An Unidentified Narrative Object (UNO) is, in the words of an Italian group of writers calling itself Wu Ming, a blend of non-fiction and fiction used to describe and produce in the reader a giant block of unidentified feelings about a specific subject.
Unlike Truman Capote’s ‘fact+fiction=faction’ and its...
Kieron Williamson: "the mini Monet" →
Imagine if the majority of young Ethiopians were given as much attention and support to explore their natural skills/talents as this incredible young artist from England. In the developing world, many children who could become masters of some art mostly spend their lives undiscovered, un-nurtured, and eventually pass away without fully utilizing their born talents because they never receive the...
Buna Buna - Aster W/Gabrel
Awesome song …...
“They [Arawaks of the Bahama Islands] … brought us parrots and balls of...”
– Columbus quoted in Columbus, the Indians, and Human Progress: A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
Is Obama a Socialist? Do the people in the Tea... →
The answer is definitely NO, he’s not a socialist, not even close, and NO, those in the tea party don’t know what they talk about, bunch of fear mongers who exploit the fearful and naive, according to the editor of the Socialist magazine. Read his article, here.
Obama was never a socialist, and he never will.
Cheap or Frugal? - The Daily Collegian →
Steve and Frank are two ex-roommates. Frank thinks Steve is cheap, Steve thinks he is just acting frugal. Here are Frank’s three all-time favorite lines from Steve:
1) I don’t watch TV as much as you do, Frank, so I’m not going to pay for half the cable bill. I’ll pay for whatever percentage I watch though.
2) Frank, phone installation is so expensive. I don’t...
Has Mel Gibson become a pariah in Hollywood? Or... →
Gibson, who’d been a subject of controversy after launching into a booze-fueled anti-Semitic rant in 2006, is in hot water again after tapes surfaced of him yelling obscenities and insults at his ex-girlfriend, Oksana Grigorieva, including a variety of vile racist slurs using what is known in polite society as the N-word. The Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department has reportedly opened a...
The Evisceration of Democracy: More Good Days for... →
“Among the more hallowed of democratic institutions anywhere in the world, the US Supreme Court has on occasion furnished grounds for optimism even to the most tried cynics. For the last couple of decades, however, the Supreme Court has been singularly unimpressive, and most of the appointments of the last twenty years, from Clarence Thomas to Chief Justice Roberts, are not calculated to...
“I’m stubborn, and rebellious but shy, and nothing even close to normal. My...”
– Naming the Fire … Strange and scary when friends have a lot in common.
Surfing the Universe - The New Yorker →
A surfer, an academic dropout, and the search for a Theory of Everything.
For half a century, scientists have tried, unsuccessfully, to unify the two governing theories of the physical world: general relativity, which explains the behavior of very large objects, like stars, and quantum mechanics, which precisely describes the phenomena of very small objects, like particles. The two theories are...
