Awarded Answers 01

I’ve been on WebAnswers.com for about two months now and have been awarded 22 best answers out of some 175 questions to which I have replied. Inexplicably, 5 have since gone missing. To generate some inbound links and demonstrate the sorts of questions I address, they are listed below (unnumbered, most recent first) with the [...]

Double Tacky

I’ve blogged before about a couple outrageously tacky limos (see here and here). The stakes … they just keep rising. Behold the double-decker stretch Hummer limo: Maybe it’s just a New York and New Jersey thing (I doubt Los Angeles or Las Vegas can be far behind), but there seems to be a race to [...]

Structural Violence vs. Behavioral Violence

Violence is a fact of life. It’s woven into our nature and therefore inescapable. But there are strange distinctions and ironies in the ways violence manifests. For example, many have observed that governments establish for themselves monopolies on the use of violence (Max Weber coined the phrase) in the forms of police and military. Gun [...]

The Height of Absurdity

There is a new entry in in the world’s tallest building sweepstakes: a tower in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia financed (in part) by Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal through his company Kingdom Holding. Announced in 2008, a contract has been inked and construction commencing soon is slated to take about 63 months, making completion sometime [...]