Tag Archives: Society

Review: Ontroerend Goed, Forced Entertainment ~ theatre notes

Which is what happened last week, when I went to see Ontroerend Goed and Forced Entertainment . I smugly thought I’d see two shows in a single evening, running from the Meat Market to the Town Hall in the quarter hour gap between events.

'Concerned father' on Fox: Obama's health-care reforms 'sentencing …

You had to figure that the moment you saw that “concerned father” harassing John Dingell at the town-hall meeting on health care in Michigan, he’d be showing up eventually on Fox News. After all, it’s what they do.

Disinfo.com – Humans lose $21 billion to computers on Wall Street

“We are just mice dancing” between the supercomputers of Wall Street giants, complains one trading executive, and an investment manager notes computers are already making 73% of all stock trades on U.S. exchanges. …

Health Care's Oil Problem – Idea of the Day Blog – NYTimes.com

Monday | Today’s idea: Health care faces a threat from oil — and not just the deep-frying variety. Medicine’s dependence on fossil fuels and inevitable higher oil prices will give the American health system a shock, an article says: …

Internet filtering plans intensify censorship in Malaysia « euraktiva

plans afoot to filter the Internet to block so-called undesirable websites, as reported in the local media. This is a clear violation of the commitment made in the promotion of the Multimedia Super Corridor and the Bill of Guarantees …