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Cool Down RBG, and Channel Obama

Edit The Daily Beast 15 Jul 2016
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, icon of the Supreme Court, is only the latest and most surprising public figure to develop mad cow disease in this sweltering full-moon summer of political life ... Mosley’s fringe stayed on the fringe ... It has helped him keep his head through eight years of tumult, challenge and choleric provocation, and it was on display again on Tuesday in his remarks at the memorial for the slain Dallas police officers ... ....

The Mirror Thief by Martin Seay review – a clever, time-hopping debut

Edit The Guardian 23 Jun 2016
From 2003 Las Vegas to 1958 California to 1592 Venice, examples of deceit and concealment constantly echo each other in an exceptionally intelligent work. Though flashbacks are currently a fashionable novelistic tactic, this bold American debut makes unusual historical jumps ... The different historical sections also echo each other ... “His disposition is somewhat choleric – Crivano dreads the task of pacifying him.” ... ....

Radiohead Deliver Buoyant, Cathartic Headlining Set at Primavera

Edit Rollingstone 04 Jun 2016
As the lights dimmed on the expansive open-air pitch of the Forum in Barcelona's San Adrián de Besós district, the cool Spanish night grew pregnant with expectation. But there were no chants of "Radiohead" erupting from the crowd. There were no odd yelps or screams or spontaneous hollers ... And silence ... Sidebar ... Maybe it's the massiveness of scale that shakes the notoriously choleric singer, makes him retreat into the shadows....

How 'The Art of the Deal' Explains Everything We Need to Know About Donald Trump

Edit Alternet 02 Jun 2016
But "The Art of War" has some pointers for his opponent. Scarcely a speech or political appearance by Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, goes by without him boasting about his book, “The Art of the Deal”, and its enormous popularity. Trump calls it the best-selling business book of all time. Not quite ... There's this passage. ... He is, he says, the master negotiator ... If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him....

Using cellphone data to study the spread of cholera (EPFL - École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)

Edit Public Technologies 24 May 2016
(Source. EPFL - École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 24.05.16- For the first time, EPFL researchers have used mobile phone records to reconstruct the spread of a cholera epidemic. While cholera has hardly changed over the past centuries, the tools used to study it have not ceased to evolve ... Original documenthttp.//actu.epfl.ch/news/using-cellphone-data-to-study-the-spread-of-choler ... (noodl. 33759472) ....

Fun takes flight in Angry Birds flick

Edit Boston Herald 20 May 2016
Another animated movie based on a video game?. Don’t despair, these angry birds — led by the choleric Red (Jason Sudeikis’ voice) — are great fun. Inspired by the Finnish gaming phenomenon, “The Angry Birds Movie” begins on bucolic Bird Island’s village, where the flightless residents’ eggs are not for scrambling, but being hatched ... Grumpy Red isn’t about to bond with his classmates....

Fun takes flight in animated flick based on video game

Edit Boston Herald 20 May 2016
Another animated movie based on a video game?. Don’t despair, these angry birds — led by the choleric Red (Jason Sudeikis’ voice) — are great fun. Inspired by the Finnish gaming phenomenon, “The Angry Birds Movie” begins on bucolic Bird Island’s village, where the flightless residents’ eggs are not for scrambling, but being hatched ... Grumpy Red isn’t about to bond with his classmates....

Congress in peril as the dynasty loses balance

Edit Khaleej Times 08 May 2016
The ancients knew their metaphors. They classified the state of a human mind into four categories, or 'humours', based on bodily fluids. blood, phlegm, melancholy and choler [or bile]. It struck me that criticism, or opposition, in a democracy can also be usefully divided into these four conditions. As the second anniversary of the Modi government approaches, all of them are coming into play. Blood is the first ... Phlegm denotes calm ... M.J ... ....

Hillary Clinton Lapses Into Another Coughing Fit [Video]

Edit Inquisitr 22 Apr 2016
While she was gasping for breath ... Hillary Clinton has experienced several episodes of this nature ... Am I the only one who noticed Hillary’s high-wrap collar, pallid, puffy face, and bulging eyes during her choleric New Hampshire primary concession speech in February? (Another unusually high collar followed the next morning.) My tentative theory is that Hillary may have sporadic flare-ups of goiter, worsened under stress....

Love, Shakespeare aur Dhoka

Edit The Times of India 16 Apr 2016
400 years after his death, the Bard is universal, iconic and, most importantly alive, writes Indrajit Hazra. Hona, ki nahin hona, yehi to mamla hain.' ... And yet, there we have it. The iconic line in its original avatar uttered by a choleric member of the Danish royal family — 'To be, or not to be, that is the question — was written by an Englishman some 400 years ago. Yes, it's in English ... Hell, yes, they are ... English ... it is ours ... Henry IV ... ....

New Anti-Gay Law Proves Mississippi Don’t Know How to Read (the Bible) In the magazine

Edit Newsweek 11 Apr 2016
Assuming for the sake of argument that homosexuality is a sin, would people turn gay because they saw a Christian taking photographs at a wedding for two men? Would a patient in a therapist’s waiting room become gay after seeing a lesbian go into the counselor’s office? Except in the bizarre world of choleric Christianity—where there seems to be ......

Yours thankfully

Edit Deccan Herald 04 Apr 2016
Like Sage Narada who had the divine name Narayana always on his lips, my boyhood friend Nattu (short for Natarajan) was fixated with the word ‘thanks’ which he dispensed freely ... Once, when he got stuck with the thirteenth table in math class, he made his choleric teacher blink in wonderment by muttering ‘thanks’ after receiving three of the juiciest on his tender fundament....

Media Monkey: Benedict Cumberbatch, Andy Murray and Boris Johnson

Edit The Guardian 03 Apr 2016
New Day’s Alison Phillips is a no-show, curse of the Radio Times, and Paul Dacre on Brexit ... So an accuser - and a story - is still awaited ... Just above his rubbishing in the Ephraim Hardcastle column was a (flimsily justified) photo of Alex Ferguson, as if slyly inviting readers to compare two choleric veterans with Scottish connections, who share hairdryer skills and a tendency never to forgive players poached by rival clubs ... ....
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