Universal Advice for New Year's Eve
Fri, 31 Dec 2010 11:36 am PST
The Atlantic Wire - One thing you tend to notice, the more holiday conversations you have with each passing year, is how strongly some people both delight in and detest New Year's Eve. On the one hand, there are the classy, sparkly parties, lots of champagne, a sense of hope. On the other, there's a boatload of expense and pressure, as well as the subtle awareness that the holiday is, technically, just an accident of calendar organization--not nearly as concrete a way of marking time as a birthday or a religious holiday. Nevertheless, New Year's Eve is upon us, and the web is bursting with commentary for the occasion, offering up the free advice for which the Internet has always been famous. Here are a few of the suggestions we've seen--for everyone from the cynical to the clueless--on how to pull off a successful New Year's Eve: Full Story | Top |
To help the poor, get rid of their cash
Fri, 31 Dec 2010 10:15 am PST
The Christian Science Monitor - The recent ad spot for M-Kesho, the groundbreaking mobile phone-linked bank account launched earlier this year in Kenya, is endearingly playful. To gently teasing music, a man with a jar of coins digs a gigantic hole in an empty grass field. He sticks his jar deep in the mud, but finds that the hole he’s dug is now too deep to get out of. “There are easier ways to look after your money,†a voiceover tells us. No kidding. Full Story | Top |
Tired of failed New Year's resolutions? Use the Z-effect to your advantage.
Fri, 31 Dec 2010 10:05 am PST
The Christian Science Monitor - I've finally figured out why we make New Year's resolutions – yearly. It's the work of a stubborn subconscious phenomenon: the Zeigarnik effect (Z-effect). Russian psychologist Bluma Zeigarnik's research in the 1920s showed that we remember unfinished events better than finished events. Full Story | Top |
Five Best Friday Columns: Reflective New Year's Eve Edition
Fri, 31 Dec 2010 07:55 am PST
The Atlantic Wire - The question it asks is clear: Should those we knew and loved be forgotten and never thought of? Should old times past be forgotten? No, says the song, they shouldn't be. We'll remember those times and those people, we'll toast them now and always, we'll keep them close. "We'll take a cup of kindness yet." Full Story | Top |
Quote of the Day: Why Resolutions Are Good, Even When They Fail
Fri, 31 Dec 2010 05:27 am PST
The Atlantic Wire - "Our resolutions are not failed acts of the will, but successful acts of the imagination. You will not enrol in a doctoral programme and spend more time with your kids and lose 20 pounds in 2011 just by resolving to do so. But you will be far more doomed to fail--and far more emotionally impoverished--if you never even dream up those plans in the first place."That's why our resolutions, even at their most delusional, strike me as the best possible way to start a new year. They bring us back in contact with all the phantom versions of ourselves, those reverse ghosts that haunt our future, waiting to be embodied. Just as other forms of wrongness as optimism propel us out of bed the morning after a wasted day, our annual resolutions propel us into a new year, hopeful all over again that we will be better people in the days to come."- Kathryn Schulz at The Guardian Full Story | Top |
Morning Vid: Ezra Klein on the GOP's Constitution 'Gimmick'
Fri, 31 Dec 2010 05:13 am PST
The Atlantic Wire - As a guest on MSNBC, The Washington Post's Ezra Klein comments on the new Republican Congress's plan to start off the next session with a full reading of the Constitution. "It's a gimmick," Klein says, arguing that the text of the Constitution is old and complicated and its meaning is subject to varying interpretations. He also references a new congressional rule requiring all subsequent bills to include a statement of their constitutional authority, pointing out that the one bill to do this before the rule was made was the health care bill--specifically in the constitutionally contested individual mandate. See more on the debate this video has started here. Full Story | Top |
Cultural Winners and Losers, 2010
Fri, 31 Dec 2010 12:00 am PST
Brent Bozell III - 2010 may have been an encouraging year for political conservatives, but it wasn't so rosy for America's culture. The most depressing result was the Second Circuit Court of Appeals granting our television networks the right to employ the nastiest curse words in front of children at any hour of the broadcast day. Full Story | Top |
Is a Bond Crisis Inevitable?
Fri, 31 Dec 2010 12:00 am PST
Pat Buchanan - With Christmas shoppers out in force and the stock market surging to a two-year high, talk is spreading that the long-awaited recovery is at hand. Full Story | Top |
Good Governance
Fri, 31 Dec 2010 12:00 am PST
Linda Chavez - Every member of Congress takes an oath to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic," but the newly elected 112th Congress will be the first in the nation's history to hear the text actually read aloud when the House convenes Jan. 5. Full Story | Top |
Big Labor's Snowmageddon Snit Fit
Fri, 31 Dec 2010 12:00 am PST
Michelle Malkin - Diligent English farmers of old once shared a motto about the blessings of work: "Industry produces wealth, God speed the plow." Indolent New York City union officials who oversee snow removal apparently live by a different creed: Sloth enhances political power, Da Boss slow the plow. Full Story | Top |
OUR FUTURE DOES NOT HAVE TO BE ONE OF DECLINE
Thu, 30 Dec 2010 04:54 pm PST
Georgie Anne Geyer - WASHINGTON -- As we march to uncertain trumpets into 2011, we consider more and more a word that has been, during all of our national life, at the far end of our conception of ourselves. Full Story | Top |
LIBERALS GIVE 'TIL IT HURTS (YOU)
Thu, 30 Dec 2010 04:38 pm PST
Ann Coulter - Liberals never tire of discussing their own generosity, particularly when demanding that the government take your money by force to fund shiftless government employees overseeing counterproductive government programs. Full Story | Top |
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