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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2017 11:35:40 GMT
P.J. O'Rourke and gang have come up with a great online magazine, American Consequences. This month's issue talks about everything from bitcoin to wine to the Galapagos. As always, O'Rourke is engaging and informative. online.flippingbook.com/view/195806/Oh, and it's free.  If periodicals don't work for you (or fit in this thread), may I suggest Mr O'Rourkes Eat The Rich? He takes on global economies, trying to answer the question, "Why do some places prosper and thrive, while others just suck?" Intelligent, pithy, sometimes a wee bit adolescent (he used to write for National Lampoon), O'Rourke is what I like to read when I want to learn about what's going on in the world. I am currently waiting on my copy of his latest, How the Hell Did This Happen? The Election of 2016. |
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Post by Ozarks Tom on Jul 16, 2017 16:16:00 GMT
I signed up, hopefully I won't get spammed, but the little bit of perusing I did it seemed interesting.
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Post by tabitha on Jul 16, 2017 16:29:55 GMT
yes, interesting.
But who has time? I wish there was some kind of news digest that gives you the facts without talking reams around it first. Stick to the essentials. I would have liked to read what they accidentially discovered in the Galapagos. I'll tell you what. It was some fancy hotel for the rich.
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Post by themotherhen on Jul 16, 2017 17:46:34 GMT
I have read his book, Modern Manners. That's definitely NOT the etiquette that I teach my kids, but it was a very accurate description of some behavior that I have seen!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2017 18:48:49 GMT
yes, interesting. But who has time? I wish there was some kind of news digest that gives you the facts without talking reams around it first. Stick to the essentials. I would have liked to read what they accidentially discovered in the Galapagos. I'll tell you what. It was some fancy hotel for the rich. Oh, I hear you. There is so much information out there, it is often difficult to choose what is worthy of my attention. The biggest hurdle I had to overcome was accepting the fact that, despite the vast wealth and availability of so much information, I will not in a million years ever get to all of it. Further (and this was the most liberating), I am not responsible to read/learn/know all of it. Freed from an unrealistic expectation, I now read what floats my boat (CC, periodicals and books of interest) and what I have to read for now (professional material). Can't begin to tell you the weight that's off my shoulders now that I am reading for Pony and no one else's expectation. Hm. I think there's a thread in that... |
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Post by tabitha on Jul 16, 2017 22:11:50 GMT
you right of course, but I would get to a lot more of it if I did not have to read three pages of words to get one page of information. That is what irritates me.
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Post by themotherhen on Jul 16, 2017 22:37:34 GMT
I think that the Associated Press used to perform that function but they are very biased now too.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2017 2:50:19 GMT
you right of course, but I would get to a lot more of it if I did not have to read three pages of words to get one page of information. That is what irritates me. I'm a pretty prose-y Pony, and like the background and descriptive words that get me to where the author is headed. Don't mind a couple trips around the mulberry bush, as it were. Perhaps you're a "Joe Friday" kind of reader: "Just the facts, ma'am!" |
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Post by paisley on Jul 17, 2017 4:12:42 GMT
My news I just want the facts...
Stories I want to be engrossed with the details and emotions..
News...no emotions... Emotions are manipulation
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2017 15:03:00 GMT
My news I just want the facts... Stories I want to be engrossed with the details and emotions.. News...no emotions... Emotions are manipulation I'm not looking so much for feeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelings in my news, but detail. |
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Post by tabitha on Jul 17, 2017 18:39:38 GMT
you right of course, but I would get to a lot more of it if I did not have to read three pages of words to get one page of information. That is what irritates me. I'm a pretty prose-y Pony, and like the background and descriptive words that get me to where the author is headed. Don't mind a couple trips around the mulberry bush, as it were. Perhaps you're a "Joe Friday" kind of reader: "Just the facts, ma'am!" Depends on what I am reading. but some things, yes indeed. |
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