[monochrom] The End of White America?

The Election of Barack Obama is just the most startling manifestation of a larger trend: the gradual erosion of "whiteness" as the touchstone of what it means to be American. If the end of white America is a cultural and demographic inevitability, what will the new mainstream look like--and how

[monochrom] RIP Ricardo Montalban

He was a "suave leading man who was one of the first Mexican-born actors to make it big in Hollywood." But he's best remembered by Boomers and Gen-Xers as a preternaturally smooth TV pitchman for Chrysler, Capt. Kirk's most butter enemy in the film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, and as the pr

[monochrom] Coffee Lovers, Club Mate Consumers: High Caffeine Intake Linked To Hallucination Proneness

High caffeine consumption could be linked to a greater tendency to hallucinate, a new research study suggests. Link -- Posted By johannes to monochr

[monochrom] India: Gods and Corporations

Most corporates, of course, do both things--swindle the earth as well as invest in religion. And they take care to bribe the auditors in both places. Especially in India, where Hindus actually worship wealth as a goddess called Laxmi, and where the acquiring of vaibhav (worldly stature, reple