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Monday, April 16, 2012

The Browser daily newsletter [16 Apr 2012]

16 April 2012

 Best of the Moment

My Life As A Failed Country Gentleman

PJ O'Rourke | WSJ | 13 April 2012

Farming sounds fun until you try it. "Raccoons eat the corn, squash and tomatoes. Freezing rain take cares of everything else." But all is not lost. "I've formed an inviolate bond with the land. The bank calls it a mortgage" Comments

In Conversation: Barney Frank

Jason Zengerle | New York | 15 April 2012

Candid and caustic Massachusetts congressman discusses 30 years in Washington. Interesting throughout. On Republicans today: "Half of them are Michele Bachmann. The other half are afraid of losing a primary to Michele Bachmann" Comments

Karma Crash

Vanessa Grigoriadis | New York | 15 April 2012

"John Friend was the charismatic leader of a feel-good, all-American yoga empire, 600,000 strong and counting. Then his disciples discovered that their guru smoked pot, had sex with his students, and ran a Wiccan coven." Oops Comments

A Season In Hell

Mark Dery | BoingBoing | 12 April 2012

Cancer survivor's meditation on pain. "I’m feeling nigh unto death, driven half-mad by a nasogastric tube running up my nose and down my throat, pumping a bilious green froth of stomach acid and half-digested goop out of my belly" Comments

Read This Book, Obama!

David Frum | Newsweek | 15 April 2012

Robert Caro has reached volume four of his great biography of Lyndon Johnson, and the moment when government suddenly shifted. JFK was gone and it was up to his ungainly, unethical successor to turn rhetoric into legal reality Comments

Why Did Kobe Go To Germany?

Jonah Lehrer | Grantland | 11 April 2012

Kobe Bryant is well past the age when NBA performance usually nosedives. How does he do it? One of the keys may be a new therapy he's had, in which his own tissues were extracted, manipulated, and then reintroduced to his body Comments

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