DO read this book

 

 

An outrageously lucid discussion on the theme of euthanasia, the book portrays the works of a (imaginary?) secret government-funded symposium, organised  by the FATER, a disquieting organization that promotes programmed death as the most desirable outcome of an equitable and efficient society. Set in a Sweden that trascends her own borders, to become the prototype of the moder society, the Modern Death is one of the most intellectually unconfortable book I’ve ever read.

this should NOT have happened

“Baby-faced Alfie, who is 13 but looks more like eight, became a father four days ago when his girlfriend Chantelle Steadman gave birth to 7lb 3oz Maisie Roxanne.

The money in the network

 Facebook Inc. quickly concluded it wasn’t worth anywhere near the $15 billion market value implied in a 2007 investment made by Microsoft Corp., according to confidential information obtained Wednesday from court documents.

read more: Facebook’s worth

oh tempora, oh mores…

“You will see, we will do better than Marilyn and Kennedy”

this was just one of the punchlines that made Carla fall in Nicolas’ arms… how cute. In case you want to try the President’s approach, don’t forget:

-to engage in what one of the observers defined as “unexpected game of seduction between two wild beasts”

-argue with your catch that (you) “understand everything about you … You make love because no one makes love to you. I know everything about you because I am so much you”

-tease her with “Bet you don’t have the nerve right now in front of everyone to kiss me on the mouth.”

but, uh, dont forget, this may work only with Carla-like women, also defined as “the huntress Diana with velvet claws”.

for other women, I guess an “hey, how do you like the party?” might work as well…

happy birthday, charles!

why we love the SUN

A SUSPECT in the Mumbai Massacre has claimed a woman FBI agent tortured him with SEX during an interrogation.

DO read more…

question to you:

Parents Need to Understand Facebook

Parents can also sign up for a free newsletter about Facebook, created especially for parents with kids under 18 using the service.

To help kids reach their full potential, parents today must know about Facebook. That’s the purpose of this website.

Starting now, parents can enroll in a free course at Stanford to learn more about Facebook. The course instructors are psychologist Dr. BJ Fogg of Stanford’s Persuasive Technology Lab and BJ’s sister, Linda Phillips, a mom with kids from college age to 5th grade.

Do parents really need to understand facebook?

forthcoming on the 12th- related topics

Darwin’s bicentennial approaching on the 12th of Febr, we allow ourselves to dwell some more on evolutionary related topics, missing links between humans and chimps, etc., …

…with the unaltered contribution of an anonimous blogger http://americaholds.blogspot.com/, and the columnist  Dinesh D’Souza

“Consider the case of Michelle Obama. She was raised in a two-parent, middle-class family. She applied to one of America’s top universities, Princeton, and was admitted. Of this experience, Michelle says on the stump, “All my life I have confronted people who had a certain expectation of me. Every step of the way, there has [sic] been people telling me what I couldn’t do. When I applied to Princeton, they said: you can’t go there, your test scores aren’t high enough.”

Which is all very moving, except that her test scores weren’t high enough. Michelle Obama is part of the affirmative action generation of above-average but far-from-stellar performers who were granted preferential admission to America’s most elite institutions.

Michelle notes that she graduated with honors in her major. Again, the problem is that her undergraduate thesis is on the web. You might expect that she wrote about Shakespeare’s sonnets or the political evolution of W.E.B. Du Bois. Well, no. Essentially Michelle Obama wrote about the problems of being a black woman at an Ivy League university.

Here is a typical passage: “By actually working with the Black lower class or within their communities as a result of their ideologies, a separationist may better understand the desparation of their situation and feel more hopeless about a resolution as opposed to an integrationist who is ignorant to their plight.”

Alas, the grammar is all wrong here. More than once, the tenses are garbled. People are ignorant “of” the plight of the lower class, not ignorant “to” their plight. And”desparation” should be spelled “desperation.” To wreak so much havoc on the English language in one sentence, without conveying anything of substance, is perhaps deserving of a prize. Is this what her professors were thinking when they granted her honors? Whatever the Obamorons say, let’s remember that that these are not mere typos; they reflect an estranged relationship to the English language. Moreover they appear not in an off-the-cuff transcript but in a thesis that is supposed to reflect the culmination of one’s college career.

Here’s another typical entry: “Attending Princeton has probably forced [black alumni] to compete intellectually with Whites more than with Blacks and, thus, they have probably become more familiar with Whites intellectually, but in other activities they are likely to have gained familiarity with Whites if they did not spend time with Whites in other activities besides intellectual ones[.]” (p49)

Wait. What?”

we ask, could she maybe contribute to Darwin’s thoeries?

new concept of grace

tr.v. graced, grac·ing, grac·es

1. To honor or favor: You grace our table with your presence.

2. To give beauty, elegance, or charm to.

3. Music To embellish with grace notes.

from the  The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language

“Every first lady since Lou Hoover—save Bess Truman—has been featured in the high-fashion magazine [Vogue], but Mrs. Obama is only the second to grace the cover”

 

Well, things might sure have gone worse

 

 

 

adding insult to injury

With a rising wave of sexaul assault, it may not have beena good idea to carpet Naples and Rome’s walls with the following ad :

thankfully, several municipalities declared their intention to pass a ban against the photos. 

The sad thing being, there ad were meant to promote clothes: can you actually see that as the main message in it?