Saturday, November 28, 2009

A fortiori, the internet

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Very little is read. This is the fact dissimulated by the enormous diffusion of authors and books. -- Blanchot, The Infinite Conversation ...
Monday, November 23, 2009

Poetry break

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Scott Horton translates a poem by Nietzsche: The Lonely One I detest following, but also leading. To obey? Never! And just as bad--to gover...

When reading the review is more fun than reading the book

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This being an Auster novel, accidents visit the narrative like automobiles falling from the sky. -- James Wood, reviewing Paul Auster's ...
Friday, November 20, 2009

Dead poets

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Via Bookslut , Poetsgraves.co.uk . Some of the pix (such as of Byron's various plaques ) cry out to be enlargeable, but still, very coo...

But my insurance STILL won't pay for my Scotch

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More on the wonder drug, alcohol : Drinking alcohol every day cuts the risk of heart disease in men by more than a third , a major study sug...

"Officer, my son won't eat his broccoli -- would you please tase him?"

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That seems to be the next logical step : LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - A prosecutor wants Arkansas State Police to open a criminal investigation ...
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Thursday, November 19, 2009

It's a constant of nature, like Planck's

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Kevin Drum is astonished that 52% of Republicans think ACORN somehow stole the 2008 election for Obama : There aren't words for this. S...
Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Against italics

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And this is why the practice of putting single words into italics for emphasis (again the Victorians are guilty) is so vulgar; a well-constr...

Sarah Palin, fluent in English AND German!

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Palin on Israeli settlements : I believe that the Jewish settlements should be allowed to be expanded upon, because that population of Israe...

Not Bush's worst AG, but most disappointing

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Scott Horton tears Michael Mukasey a new one : Former Bush Administration Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey addressed the Federalist Socie...

Pia fraus?

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The reviewer is justifiably bemused by a book entitled Pious Nietzsche : The argument in this volume is that Nietzsche retained his native ...
Tuesday, November 17, 2009

QOTD

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My concern is these students are in this developmental phase, and I don't think it's a good developmental practice to just tell some...
Monday, November 16, 2009

Almost, but not quite, entirely unlike ...

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I guess you either like "Tyler Durden's" kind of humor or you don't, but I do, so : Fight Club’ is unquestionably the best...

Surreal Sarah

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"Surreal" is, to TBA, the proper word for the spectacle of Steve Schmidt, in his role as campaign advisor to John McCain, Republic...
Sunday, November 15, 2009

Please refrain from glorifying the terrorists

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Matt Yglesias puts it very well : In political terms, the right likes the war idea because it involves taking terrorism more “seriously.” Bu...