You've seen multiple of these today, when everyone's bragging about the amazing things they've done.

Those who fancy themselves owners of the world do not even want to remember those promises, which were proclaimed with hypocritical bragging.

As a Swede, I have heard such pacific boasting all my life that neutral Sweden is a moral superpower. Now this bragging has become the EU's ideology.

I'm not bragging about how much we fund it's how little anyone else actually pays attention to aging and funds innovation on aging, chronic disease management and independent living in the home.

LONDON I don t mean to sound as though I am bragging, but the last time the Conservative Party won an election in Britain was 1992, when John Major was Prime Minister. The chairman of the party at the time, running the winning campaign, was me.

That goal is reflected in the European Union s current focus on creating a fiscal compact, which would constitutionalize member states commitment to supposedly inviolable deficit ceilings. Unfortunately, the compact is likely to be another example of Europe s subordination of economic reality to politicians desire for bragging rights about progress toward ever closer union.

Bill Hicks and if you don't know his work, you should really Google him Hicks had a routine about getting into one of those childhood bragging contests on the playground, where finally the other kid says to him, Huh? Well my dad can beat up your dad, to which Hicks replies, Really? How soon?

In this short talk, Arianna Huffington shares a small idea that can awaken much bigger ones the power of a good night's sleep. Instead of bragging about our sleep deficits, she urges us to shut our eyes and see the big picture We can sleep our way to increased productivity and happiness and smarter decision making.