Aug 9, 2008
[Richard Wright] persuaded a sympathetic white man to lend him his library card, and he forged a note for himself to present to the librarian: “Dear Madam: Will you please let this nigger boy have some books by H. L. Mencken?”—Louis Menand, “Richard Wright: The Hammer and the Nail”, American Studies, 88, citing Wright, Black Boy, Later Works, 235.
Aug 7, 2008
Headline: McCain laundering contributions from Middle Eastern oil execs, US oil execs
Aug 6, 2008
Greenblatt thinks Shakespeare may have stolen deer, but for him this was ‘a skilful assault upon property, a symbolic violation of the social order, a coded challenge to authority’, since Greenblatt likes appositional clauses as much as he likes to think that Will was a bit of a boy radical.—Colin Burrow, “Who Wouldn’t Buy It?” (a review of Shakespeare bios)
Aug 1, 2008
To say that trolls pose a threat to the Internet at this point is like saying that crows pose a threat to farming.—NYT (the correct response to JZ, I think)
Aug 1, 2008
I think I stumbled across the latest trend. In the mail today were two notices that my private information had been stolen. Stanford had a laptop with personnel information stolen and Disney lost some backup tapes with private information while archiving them. Both came with free subscriptions for identity theft protection.
Aug 1, 2008
You can’t do this to me! I’m a Norwegian!—angry black man yelling at a cop
Jul 21, 2008
To know is one thing, and to know for certain that we know is another. […] The greatest empiricists among us are only empiricists on reflection: when left to their own instincts, they dogmatize like infallible popes.—William James, “The Will to Believe”
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