May 2012
28 posts
The Secret Meeting that Changed Rap Music and...
While reading the comments section on Business Insider, I came across a link that led me to this letter.
It has to be read. I mean it. Stop what you’re doing for 10 minutes and read this nightmare of a letter.
I can’t prove whether it’s a hoax, or not. A follow-up article was posted a few weeks later to address the matter.
The U.S. can condemn, say, Syria, but this private...
The Only Thing You Ever Need To Read Before...
As published in the Financial Times on July 8th, 2008, by Gideon Rachman.
By reporters everywhere
An ineffectual international organization yesterday issued a stark warning about a situation it has absolutely no power to change, the latest in a series of self-serving interventions by toothless intergovernmental bodies.
“We are seriously concerned about this most serious outbreak of...
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“This is my last action film. I tell you, I’m not young any more. I’m...”
– Jackie Chan
Bravo.
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“Existen normas del buen gusto, pero no podemos conocerlas. Sólo podemos...”
– Standards of good taste exist, but we cannot know them. We can only apply them. Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Escolios a un Texto Implícito, 2.330. As one of my tutors in college put it, “De gustibus non est disputandum does not mean that everyone’s taste is equal. It means that some people are wrong, and...
The parson’s words were so touching, and the fate which awaited him so monstrously cruel, that all but his most inveterate enemies where moved to pity. Some of the women who had giggled at the antics of the clown now found themselves in tears. The ushers called for silence. In vain. The sobbing was uncontrollable. Laubardemont was greatly disturbed. Nothing was going according to plan....
“Alas, the country! how shall tongue or pen
Bewail her now uncountry gentlemen?...”
– B, The Age of Bronze
“New broom sweeps clean, but an old broom know all the corners.”
– Jamaican Proverb
The Mysterious Case of the Vanishing Genius →
Evolutionary psychologist David Buss once noted that Profet “seemed to possess a unique view of the world that included a paranoia consumed with invading pathogens and parasites,” recalls his former student Barry Kuhle, now a University of Scranton (Pa.) psychology professor. This paranoia may have fueled her genius. It may also explain her disappearance.
By the turn of the millennium, Profet...
“Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
– Anton Chekhov
More often that not, my days are almost ridiculously devoid of bad news. I mean, yes, there are terrible news to be found online at any moment, but they do not affect me personally. And, sure, I may catch the sound of an ambulance siren in the distance, or catch a glimpse of a car wreck on the street, but I never get a call soon after saying, “You need to come down to ________, something...
“It’s shite being Scottish! We’re the lowest of the low. The scum of...”
– Mark Renton
April 2012
28 posts
“Inget vågat, inget vunnet.”
– Alexander Woollcott
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“Don’t be ridiculous. Are Elvis impersonators unethical? Is the release of...”
– Coquette
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Dentists Without Borders →
One thing that puzzled me during the American health-care debate was all the talk about socialized medicine and how ineffective it’s supposed to be. The Canadian plan was likened to genocide, but even worse were the ones in Europe, where patients languished on filthy cots, waiting for aspirin to be invented. I don’t know where these people get their ideas, but my experiences in France, where...