March 2012
25 posts
“Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a...”
– Marshall McLuhan
February 2012
18 posts
NEVER SURRENDER: THE LONELY WAR OF HIROO ONODA →
His home was a dense area of rainforest and he lived on the wild coconuts that grew in abundance. His principal enemy was the army of mosquitoes that arrived with each new shower of rain. But for Hiroo Onoda there was another enemy - one that remained elusive. Unaware that the Second World War had ended 29 years earlier, he was still fighting a lonely guerrilla war in the jungles of Lubang...
How bad is it in Greece? Pretty bad.
“By many indicators, Greece is devolving into something unprecedented in modern Western experience. A quarter of all Greek companies have gone out of business since 2009, and half of all small businesses in the country say they are unable to meet payroll. The suicide rate increased by 40 percent in the first half of 2011. A barter economy has sprung up, as people try to work around a broken...
