John Quincy Adams photographed in 1843
Why shopping will never be the same
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/story/2012-08-05/future-retail-tech/56880626/1
Intel scientist Nola Donato has seen the future of retail, and it is in a Magic Mirror.
Apparently, she has something to say to women as well
I love Jane Austen but not for the reasons one would think. As a male I have zero interest in the story lines. I don’t give a damn what happens to the Bennet sisters,get them to a nunnery for all I care but I find Austen one of the very few novelists one can read at random. Pick a page, pick a paragraph; magnificent prose all.Perhaps if I had paid more attention to the stories, I would have learned this and given a damn if I were a woman.
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Sleep your way to success
A growing number of research studies suggest that sleep may be the secret to performing at your highest level, writes David K. Randall. Everyone from the military to athletes are starting to get serious about sleep.
Please, Please No, Please
Social media, 17th Century
Good thing I use the F
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Why Vidal,Mailer,Capote all failed to write the great American novel
Three of the most overrated writers in their time. I’m not saying that they’ll all lie on the ash heap of literary history–maybe just the backyard of someone on “Hoarding–buried alive”. Pretentious bleats all.
the notion of making the rich “pay their fair share” has always struck me as either ridiculous or a well crafted deception. You could tax the rich at 100 percent and not even dent the national debt. The middle class and the poor have the bulk of the national wealth because of their numbers. They will {and always have had to}make the payments in the end.
While I disagree with statists, I sometimes admire their discipline. They are very good at staying “on message.”
I am 100 percent confident, for instance, that they intend big tax hikes on the middle class, even though they would piously swear an oath to the contrary. Indeed, I suspect more than 90 percent of them secretly would like a value-added tax.
It’s not that they necessarily dislike ordinary people, but privately they understand that you can’t finance big government by taxing rich people.
Simply stated, there aren’t enough of the “1 percent.” Moreover, rich people have significant control over the timing, composition, and level of their income, so class-warfare tax hikes inevitably will fail to generate much revenue (yes, the Laffer Curve exists).
So it makes sense that they want to screw the middle class, but it’s also obvious that they don’t want to admit this is their…
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