Archive for January, 2011
Is Malcolm Gladwell following this stuff? In Egypt and Tunisia: Images of the lowly challenging the mighty have been relayed from one capital to the next, partly through the aggressive coverage of Al Jazeera. Social networking sites like Facebookand Twitter have given the protesters a potent weapon, enabling them to elude the traditional police measures to monitor [ READ MORE ]
Anyone who has played Farmville knows how arduous farming can be. I’m still waiting for the release of a game called Hunter-Gathererville, so we can see that life for our pre-history predecessors might not have been so “nasty, brutish, and short” as we’ve been led to believe. And if it does turn out that hunter-gatherer [ READ MORE ]
By now, most of the internet‘s collective e-mouths have been agog with fury, rage, and controversy over the Yale law professor Amy Chua’s excerpt titled, “Why Chinese Mothers are Superior“, published last Sunday in the Wall Street Journal. Besides free PR for her upcoming book, this article has also made a lot of good, important [ READ MORE ]
It might just be the place I’m from, or the family I grew up in, or the company I keep, but I don’t find swearing, in and of itself, offensive. Not even in the slightest. Fuck is not an issue. Shit is trifling. Even cunt doesn’t faze me. I know it’s not like this for [ READ MORE ]
The large American flag, the stars-and-stripes lapel pin, the insistence of inserting the addendum of “our exceptional country” when it was totally uncalled for. A political figure who labels critiques “blood libel” after earlier praising gun rights, superimposing targets on electorate maps, and using gun metaphors to focus right-wing rage against liberal opponents. A televised [ READ MORE ]
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