Do you think you’re a beautiful, unique flower? Still under the delusion that you can live outside the norm, escaping society’s conventions? Like to think you’re somehow special? Well, Four Christmases is here to correct you of your silly fantasies, possibly taking your spirit while at it. The director of The King of Kong, a […]
Film Review: Four Christmases
Do you think you’re a beautiful, unique flower? Still under the delusion that you can live outside the norm, escaping society’s conventions? Like to think you’re somehow special? Well, Four Christmases is here to correct you of your silly fantasies, possibly taking your spirit while at it. The director of The King of Kong, a […]
Signs of the Times
A few couples of years ago, a scientific journal rated Nigerians as the happiest people on earth. Whether this was a strategy of psychologic warfare, designed to keep down the Nigerians’ capacity to critically analyse their ways and actions (many revelled at being dubbed the happiest while actually they weren’t happier than anyones), or an […]
Tbilisi Reports on War
Posted by Veronica Khokhlova to Global Voices Online See Global Voices special coverage page on the South Ossetia crisis. Below are a few posts from bloggers who are currently in Tbilisi, Georgia. LJ user merienn wrote this (RUS) from Tbilisi on Aug. 11 and 12: Aug. 11, 2008 – 10:46 AM: At 6 AM today, […]
The Great Leveling, Phase 1
The guy interviewed on NPR this day said that once our “credit crunch” is resolved in America, people will race out and buy homes. He’s wrong, as are economists who believe this. Rapidly increasing numbers of consumers are finding themselves irreparably strapped financially — and market profits dominoes have already begun to fall. But this […]
Eight things to do this week to make you healthy
Isn’t it funny how as soon as the weekend arrives many of us are afflicted with terrible headaches? The reason? We’re departing too radically from our weekday routine. So instead of lounging in bed until midday on Saturday morning, get up earlier and stick to a relatively normal schedule. Say yes to cress Watercress […]