Like Twain The USA Is Unlikley to Wane, written 2 days ago, Any management student will tell you that Scenarios are designed to be provocative documents that explore a variety of potential outcomes. So anybody wringing their hands expecting the USA to wane... How many times have you thought...

Good God, What Day is This?!, written 4 days ago, Bright RawTaken March 16, 2008 with Canon PowerShot A550 Rinse and repeat….I’m not kidding, either. My days are like this: get up, eat, shower, dress, eat again, pack a lunch, cross the street to work, where I suck back 8 to 10 cups of coffee,...

Welcome to our newest Heroes of Compassion, written 1 week ago, We welcome the following schools as our newest Heroes of Compassion! Montessori School of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky "After learning more about Amman Imman: Water is Life, we couldn't think of a more perfect or worthy cause ...

Hicks and Haneef, written 2 days ago, David Hicks will finally be able to get on with his life. The AFP has stated that there will be no new control order sought when the current one expires on December. Finally, Hicks’ abuse at the hands of two legal systems appears to be over. Here’s hoping...

Late Late Nite FDL: Barefoot On The Sidewalk, written 1 day ago, Are you the kind of person who avoided the cracks in the sidewalk for a long time? Did you do this out of superstition or just as a courtesy to the power of myth? Do you remember the first time you decided to let go of the myth and jus...

Shifting the Weight Around, written 2 days ago, The Canadian Supreme Court has ruled that obese airline passengers have a right to two seats for the price of one: The high court declined to hear an appeal by Canadian airlines of a decision by the Canadian Transportation Agency that people who are �...

The miraculous power of scale, written 6 days ago, In this talk at UC Berkeley, Google's Sergey Brin confesses (at minute 1:27) that he thought Wikipedia couldn't work. Most people wouldn't contribute, he rightly assumed, and it would never reach critical mass. He was in good company. In the clas...

At last a free todo app for the iPod Touch that works offline, written 1 week ago, Evernote, which has had a lot of good press for its note taking/todo application, has finally added offline reading to its feature list for the iPhone and iPod Touch… kind of. It’s feature rich enough that I have ...

On Restlessness, written 1 week ago, Plenty keeps still. Hunger is a wanderer. ~ Zulu proverb

Are You Crazy About Nuts?, written 3 days ago, I love eating nuts. I used to eat nuts during reviews when I was in high school and college because I can bring it along with me easily and eat it anytime and anywhere. Nuts is also considered as food for the brain, that’s what I believed. I have read...

Movie Review: Quantum of Solace: Bond gone Bourne, written 1 week ago, Politics/Message: And, so it goes. Hot on the heals of the Anglican Church, fox hunting, and the House of Lords, James Bond is the latest British institution to fall into the PC abyss. Watch out Queen Elizabeth and pork pie! ...

The Mystery of President Obama, written 2 weeks ago, Barack Obama speaks to supporters and the nation following his victory. Photo by Daniel Acker/Bloomberg News/Landov. On January 20, Barack Obama will be sworn in as the 44th president of the United States. And like Franklin Delano Roosevelt ...

Brilliant!, written 4 days ago, OK, so I make my way back to my desk today after a shift at Reference and find a copy of How To Build a Time Machine on top of it with a reserve bookmark. The book also has a yellow Post-It note marked: “For Space Ace.” Needless to say, I let out a really

womb for hire III, written 1 month ago,  It’s now officially legal to rent a womb in India. * link to article below  Isn’t it paradoxical how people argue till the cows come home over the morality of desperately ill patients – people in dire life and death situations - paying donors for ki...

A Code to Live By—Part I, written 4 days ago, If we’ve learned nothing from Showtime’s superb series Dexter, it’s that whether subconsciously or deliberately, we follow a code—a system of principles and rules we live by. For those of us not a fictional stylized vigilante serial killer, we ...

The End of 'Bad Boy' Thinking, written 2 days ago, Barack Obama's election brings down the curtain on decades of potted history, academic hustles, and bad-boy thinking in black politics and culture. Racism is actually a childish form of paranoid narcissism which makes one group taller by cutting of...

Generation Veal, the continuing saga, written 2 days ago, By Thoreau “So, I didn’t buy the second volume of the book, so I couldn’t study those chapters, and I didn’t do the homework.  And then for some reason the midterm just didn’t click for me, so I think that’s why I failed it.  Ca...

Oh My My My! How do you like it now?, written 2 days ago, I don't know if that is how Keith Jackson, college football's greatest announcer, would have said it, but that is how I remember it. But is this a game I am asking about? No, it is the economy. We are in serious trouble (duh), here's why; In...

Friday's comment from the papers in..., written 2 days ago, Today in Times Comment Gerard Baker: No drama? With Hillary aboard? Forget it Camilla Cavendish: The children that Haringey did take into care Hugo Rifkind: Thank heaven I was never invited to this party Martin Samuel: Britain doesn't dance...

One owner VERY low mileage, written 2 days ago, You Get the most amazing things listed on Ebay Autocontinental Rolls Royce And Bentley Specialist Offer Left Hand Drive Rolls Royce Corniche convertible last owner President Saddam Hussein only covered 900 klms LHD Maroon with tan leather red piping...