“When asked in an interview, ‘How do you define comedy?’.. George Burns responded, ‘If you laugh, it’s comedy.’”[1] The world is a virtual tragi-comedy. Wake up in the morning, spill the coffee on the brand new white rug, start to get angry, then remember the adage “don’t cry over spilled milk,” wonder if it applies to coffee, laugh it off… […]
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“In Lakota, we don’t have a word for animal – in Latin, ani means ‘soul’ and mal means ‘bad’, so we can’t call these creatures that we consider to be our brothers and sisters ‘bad souls’. Each life form that we can name we call a ‘Nation’ – there’s the Ant Nation, the Tree Nation, Air Nation, Water Nation…” Tiokasin […]
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Google Glass is no longer a rumor, said Tim Parker in Forbes.com. “It’s real.” The company unveiled a prototype of its Internet-equipped eyeglasses last week, announcing that it would give a selected bunch of “bold, creative individuals” the chance to purchase the first version this year for $1,500. The futuristic spectacles have a tiny screen located in the top right-hand […]
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Iraq War veteran and first-time author Kevin Powers has written a war novel that “can stand beside All Quiet on the Western Front or The Red Badge of Courage” said John Burnside in The Guardian (U.K.). Narrated by Pvt. John Bartle, a 21-year-old U.S. Army soldier, this “extraordinary” book tells us precisely what it was like to be a combatant […]
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