Many revolutions (including our own) come not from a rising up of the downtrodden masses but from the rising expectations of a growing middle class:
But the flurry of construction in Changsha, a southern Chinese city astride a cocoa-colored river that until recently was far removed from the industrial bustle of affluent coastal areas, is typical of the building frenzy that has Beijing's economic planners worried.
Wouldn't want you to miss some of the really important news of the day: Organizers of a music festival near Newport, Isle of Wight, had asked festival-goers to turn up in curly wigs and large shoes. But they shelved the idea after a number of ticket holders said they suffered from coulrophobia:
Coulrophobia - fear of clowns - can cause panic attacks, shortness of breath, rapid breathing, irregular heartbeat, sweating, nausea and overall feelings of dread.
Here's an interesting idea. Instead of making our education competitive with the rest of the world's by raising our standards, we send one of our "experts" overseas so he can screw them up as much as he has us:
Lessons in happiness are to be introduced for 11-year-olds in state schools to combat a huge rise in depression, self-harm and anti-social behaviour among young people.
Michael Goodwin is a little bit behind the times:
Last week's headlines prove the point: North Korea fires missiles, Iran talks of nukes again, Iraq carnage continues, Israel invades Gaza, England observes one-year anniversary of subway bombing. And, oh, yes, the feds stop a plot to blow up tunnels under the Hudson River.
World War III has begun.
If you have a son or daughter heading off to college whom you have been coddling all these years, you might want to rehink it in the next couple of months, WHILE THERE IS STILL TIME:
An excellent question: Where are Star Wars critics now?
North Korea's threatening spate of missile launches — including an unsuccessful try with an advanced version of its Taepodong 2 Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile that is capable of hitting the United States — has sparked a cacophony of talk from leaders and foreign policy experts around the world.
What are we fighting against? The fundamentalists who think this is what civilization should be like:
Muslims who fail to pray five times daily will be sentenced to death under the rule of Islamic clerics who have taken over the Somali capital Mogadishu.
Go ahead. Blame such insanity on Western deecadence and imperialist arrogance.
I've known some doctors with lousy bedside manners, but this guy takes the cake:
A judge has ordered the state Board of Medicine to stop disciplinary proceedings against a doctor accused of telling a patient she was so obese she might only be attractive to black men and advising another to shoot herself following brain surgery.
How The New York Times might have covered the American Revolution (via boortz.com):
