Aesop's FablesBy Aesop Translated by George Fyler Townsend The Wolf and the Lamb Wolf, meeting with a Lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to lay violent hands on him, but to find some plea to justify to the Lamb the Wolf's right to eat him. He thus addressed him: "Sirrah, last year you...
The Mercury News has a great article about how the drug cartels of Mexico have morphed into a full blown Organized Crime Syndicates including Oil Smuggling, Human Trafficking, DVD Pirating, Kidnapping, and Extortion Rackets. Mexico by allowing Organized Crime Syndicates to influence every level...
Radiohead, often considered one of the greatest rock bands of all time (if not the most innovative), has offered its unique blend of alternative rock for over one quarter of a century. The band began in the mid 1980s within Abingdon, Oxfordshire all members were enrolled in the Abingdon School...
Laura Beatrice Marling is a brilliant vocalist whose enchanting English folk/indie artist reaches beyond listeners’ ears. With thought inducing lyrics and a hauntingly simple sound, Marling’s talent is powerful. Marling rose to prominence from humble roots to her position as one of the youngest...
The cliché says that a picture can speak a thousands words, but some photographs eschew any numeric limitation and go on talking to us ad infinitum. Certain photo portraits have that rare power. Far more than pictorial representations of celebrated or instantly recognizable figures, they capture...
For answer Holmes clapped the hat upon his head. It came right over the forehead and settled upon the bridge of his nose. "It is a question of cubic capacity, " said he; "a man with so large a brain must have something in it. " ... Sherlock Holmes - The Adventure of the...
Glenn Beck, American conservative radio and television host, author, entrepreneur, political commentator, and public figure, is an important figure in U.S. politics. Beck has captured wealth and fame, controversy and criticism, ridicule and support. Beck is a stalwart who defends American values...
These U.S. corporations, if they were individual human beings, would be locked up for life. Instead, they continue raking in the big bucks. Human rights abuses, murder, war, eco disasters, and animal exploitation keep these evil companies raking in the green. Prepare to be disgusted.
TimaeusBy Plato Written 360 B.C.E Translated by Benjamin Jowett Persons of the Dialogue-SOCRATES- CRITIAS- TIMAEUS- HERMOCRATES Socrates. One, two, three; but where, my dear Timaeus, is the fourth of those who were yesterday my guests and are to be my entertainers to-day? Timaeus. He...
At Brainz we're suckers for good music. And below is the list of Paste Magazine's Top 50 albums of the past decade (2000-2009). We're big fans of many of these albums and can't recommend most of them highly enough. 50. Björk: Vespertine [Elektra] 200149. Libertines: Up The Bracket [Rough Trade]...
