Fidel Castro: 'Oswald Could Not Have Been the One Who Killed Kennedy' - Jeffrey Goldberg. What Cuba's former president thinks really happened in Dallas 50 years ago this week Fidel Castro shares at least one belief with the majority of Americans: He is convinced that the assassination of President John F.
Kennedy was not the work of a lone gunman, but was the culmination of a broad conspiracy. According to a recent Gallup poll, 61 percent of Americans believe Lee Harvey Oswald did not act alone in Dallas 50 years ago. Ida B. Wells. Ida Bell Wells-Barnett (July 16, 1862 – March 25, 1931) was an African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist and, with her husband, newspaper owner Ferdinand L.
Barnett, an early leader in the civil rights movement. She documented lynching in the United States, showing how it was often a way to control or punish blacks who competed with whites. She was active in women's rights and the women's suffrage movement, establishing several notable women's organizations. Slavoj Žižek: "Most of the idiots I know are academics" Slavoj Žižek is brimming with thought. Each idea sprays out of the controversial Slovenian philosopher and cultural theorist in a jet of words. Stalin, Mother Teresa, and Rob Portman: What do they have in common? Courtesy of the U.S.
Senate via Wikimedia Commons Rob Portman, Republican senator from Ohio and one-time contender for Romney’s would-be VP slot, announced on Friday that he has reversed his very public stance against gay marriage. As the well-known conservative stated in an Op-Ed piece on Friday, he now believes that “if two people are prepared to make a lifetime commitment to love and care for each other in good times and in bad, the government shouldn’t deny them the opportunity to get married.” What’s the reason behind this seemingly sudden change of heart? According to Portman, it can all be credited to his son, Will — an openly gay 21-year-old man who came out of the closet to his conservative father two years ago. This seems very similar to other political idiosyncrasies that we’ve seen in the past when there are family members involved.
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I was a Manic Pixie Dream Girl. Like scabies and syphilis, Manic Pixie Dream Girls were with us long before they were accurately named.
It was the critic Nathan Rabin who coined the term in a review of the film Elizabethtown, explaining that the character of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl "exists solely in the fevered imaginations of sensitive writer-directors to teach broodingly soulful young men to embrace life and its infinite mysteries and adventures". Lez Miserable: the teaches of Peaches. Howard Marks: 'Prison isn't very high on the list of life's tragedies'
Welcome to the Twin Zone. Thurman and Sidney Sewell, better known as the ATL Twins, cozy up around a woman's butt in the bed of their penthouse apartment in Midtown Atlanta.
Photos by Paul Birman, Chris Nieratko, and Troy Stains. D o you think we could fuck Selena Gomez?” Asked the voice on the other end of my iPhone, a little over a year ago. His deep Tennessean twang added extra emphasis to the word fuck. Melissa Sterry - Design Scientist, Futurist, Strategist, Writer, Speaker. Design scientist and futurist Melissa Sterry is known as a champion of new science, technology and thinking that serves to make the world a better place.
Her work is concerned with developing a vision of what successful change may look like and supporting others on a journey towards it. For more than a decade, Melissa has worked to integrate pioneering sustainability thinking into mainstream business and society. A recipient of several innovation, creativity and enterprise awards, including the Mensa Education and Research Foundation International Award for enhancing intelligence that benefits society, Melissa divides her time in equal parts between research, development, enterprise and communication.
Having migrated from designer to design scientist, with a career heavily focused on emergent digital technology and its applications, Melissa has worked with leading-edge innovation for more than two decades, of which the past dozen have been at executive board level. Michael Kearney. Michael Kevin Kearney (born January 18, 1984, in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA) is a former child prodigy known for setting several world records and teaching college at the age of 17.
Early life[edit] He was homeschooled by his parents, especially his mother, a Japanese American.[1] He was diagnosed with ADHD and his parents declined to use the offered prescription of Ritalin. His younger sister, Maeghan, is also a child prodigy.[2] He spoke his first words at four months. He said I like boys. [3] At the age of six months, he said to his pediatrician "I have a left ear infection"[3] and learned to read at the age of ten months.[3] When Michael was four, he was given multiple-choice diagnostic tests for the Johns Hopkins precocious math program. Research and teaching[edit] He graduated from Middle Tennessee State University with a master's degree in biochemistry at the age of 14. Contestant[edit] References[edit] External links[edit] ABC News: "What Are Child Geniuses Like As Adults?
" Scrapheap Transhumanism. Lepht Anonym February 11, 2010 I’m sort of inured to pain by this point.
Anesthetic is illegal for people like me, so we learn to live without it; I’ve made scalpel incisions in my hands, pushed five-millimeter diameter needles through my skin, and once used a vegetable knife to carve a cavity into the tip of my index finger. I’m an idiot, but I’m an idiot working in the name of progress: I’m Lepht Anonym, scrapheap transhumanist. I work with what I can get. Sadly, they don’t do it like that on TV. My first foray was into RFID (radio frequency identification) following Amal Graafstra. United States. Busting Up the Klan and Sticking It to the Man.
Why Noam Chomsky Is the Subject of Relentless Attacks by Corporate Media and Establishment 'Intellectuals' J. B. S. Haldane.