Is outlined here (via Josh Marshall). I learned several things from this article. Most Americans subscribe to an altruistic morality which compels them to aid those with less, for instance. Wealth and values are one. I learned that roughly 60% of one billion is “billions” and was money ill-spent because enemies should be starved.
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What Baudelaire would have thought of Talk Sex, with Sue Johanson.
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As I drove through this area looking for a bank earlier today, I noted the following two items: there’s a commemorative plaque of a visit by Thackeray to the city in the 1850s. It states that he thought the twenty guineas he earned as a speaking fee was the easiest money he ever made and [...]
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I once delivered a pizza to the house Michael Jordan grew up in. It was most certainly not in “the tough side of Wilmington, North Carolina.” Furthermore, even passing familiarity with Jordan’s biography would be enough for you to know that he had a comfortable middle-class upbringing. His dad worked at GE. And “Jordan was [...]
After getting an oil change, I stopped by a previously unvisited bookstore in the Chamblee area and purchased an omnibus edition of Charles Fort along with the latest Le Carré. Opening it at random in the coffeeshop, I came across the following passage: “Almost anybody reading this account will perhaps regretfully, perhaps not, say farewell [...]
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Have any of Boehme’s shoes survived? What’s their going rate, if so?
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The dissection of Hauser’s brain in the final scene of this film reveals unusual development in the cerebrum, and Hauser’s murder is clearly the rage of Caliban at seeing himself in the mirror. Though the idea of a human deprived of language and being reintegrated into the society is fairly common, are they instances of [...]
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The former Calpundit has some harsh things to say about this L.A. Times piece by Michael Gorman, the president-elect of the ALA. Drum’s main criticism is that there is no rational grounds for Gorman to object to an initiative that will make it easier for scholars to do what they already do in physical libraries. [...]
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From this WP story: There are also rumors across the Midwest that state game agencies — sometimes using black helicopters — are secretly planting mountain lions in farm country. This other story from the Post reminded me somehow of Memoirs Found in a Bathtub.
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Next week, I may post his thoughts on Jonathan Spence’s The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci.
Via Metafilter, I found a scanned and translated version of Alexey Lipatov’s Stalin vs. Hitler. Though I had seen this before, I haven’t yet read it. I should thank Metafilter for once again finding something on which I can waste large amounts of time. My immediate question concerns the representations of occult energy around Hitler’s [...]
I would use the following to illustrate the, to me, simple principle that you do not enter a turning lane until shortly before you intend to turn, particularly if doing so involves passing through other turning points. Drivers intending to turn left on Clairmont off of Scott, I’m talking to you: The dress of a [...]
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“Perhaps instead the techniques of chemistry and biology have seemed unclean and unmanly, the products of ‘odd-ball’ scientists ensconced in laboratories, reflecting perverted scientific ingenuity rather than the bravery of cold steel” (George H. Quester, “Chemical and Biological Warfare.” American Political Science Review 68.3 [Sep. 1974]: 1285).
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Via Watercooler Games, I see this notice that the South Korean government, or at least that portion of the government responsible for regulating video games, which might be rather large, considering, has decided that most certainly something obstat in the way of Ghost Recon 2. The game is apparently set in a war-torn North Korea [...]
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That Gödel’s favorite movie was Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. This was from one hell’uva interesting article [Chronicle] by Palle Yourgrau excerpted from his forthcoming A World Without Time: The Forgotten Legacy of Gödel and Einstein. I should also recommend this SEP casual introduction to time machines.
An edition of the Earl of Rochester’s Sodom is expected to fetch nearly $65K or so at auction. In the fifth act, the dictator Bolloxinion threatens “to invade heaven and bugger the gods” (Richard Elias: “Political Satire in Sodom,” Studies in English Literature. 18.3 [Summer 1978]: 434).
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