Friday, January 16, 2009

"The Readers"

"FOR a quarter of a century, surveys of reading habits by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), a federally-funded body, have been favourite material for anyone who thinks America is dumbing down. Susan Jacoby, author of “The Age of American Unreason”, for example, cites the 2007 NEA report that “the proportion of 17-year-olds who read nothing (unless required to do so for school) more than doubled between 1984 and 2004.”

So it is a surprise that this bellwether seems to have taken a turn for the better. This week the NEA reported that, for the first time since 1982 when its survey began, the number of adults who said they had read a novel, short story, poem or play in the past 12 months had gone up, rising from 47% of the population in 2002 to over 50% in 2008.*
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http://www.economist.com/world/unitedstates/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12941110

Monday, January 12, 2009

Sunday, January 11, 2009

Kid Cudi

This song took bit of time to warm up to but it's dope:

Thursday, January 8, 2009

Benjamin Button...Crazy!!

Leona Lewis is VERY pretty