Rose Cantine

It’s chic to dump on Millennials, that generation of US-based humans born between 1980 and 1995. 60 Minutes, a US television news program, and a book called Generation Me make them sound like fragile little crybabies who crumble at the thought of every challenge. I finished reading Generation Me this week and think that the [...]

I was hoping human brains would have evolved after four hundred years but alas, it might take another 100,000 years for that to happen and by that time, there may not be a human race *to evolve*.
This article in Le Monde is far too depressing for a jolly holiday such as Christmas: God dominates American [...]

The New York Times has a funny article about shopdropping, the opposite of shoplifting, where people put products in shops:
Anti-consumerist artists slip replica products packaged with political messages onto shelves while religious proselytizers insert pamphlets between the pages of gay-and-lesbian readings at book stores.
I can’t imagine it’s fun for the personnel of the stores who [...]

Not exactly a business you can do in your pajamas and quite hazardous but fascinating and rewarding if you are up to it: opening a restaurant in Kabul (Afghanistan). A number of foreign women have opened restaurants in Kabul according to Women’s eNews, offering Thai, Mexican, Filipino, Indian and other kinds of cuisines to residents. [...]

We are assaulted everyday by noise — sounds from cars, alarms, security people yelling in airports and music (or muzak) in stores, cafes, bars and restaurants. We can’t have decent conversations or concentrate on what we are doing. So I enjoyed this article from Salon talks about No Music Day in Britain (November 21) where [...]

If you have a weak heart, do not read this. On the other hand, if you want to know what needs to be done and how difficult it will be, pour yourself a glass of wine and read this article written by Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz in Vanity Fair (excerpt):
Up to now, the [...]

Of all the clueless things in the world, check this out: the New York Times reports that “the American military lost track of some 190,000 pistols and automatic rifles supplied by the United States to Iraq’s security forces in 2004 and 2005, as auditors discovered in the past year.”
Gosh, where on earth could they have [...]