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Curses!
Sunday, October 21st, 2007
As with most cultural pseudo-controversies, I’ve been fascinated and annoyed with both sides of the “naughty words” hullabaloo. Steven Pinker offers the best popular analysis I’ve seen, in The New Republic. What the Fuck: Why We Curse: The response is not only emotional but involuntary. It’s not just that we don’t have earlids to shut [...]
Brevity is the soul of wit. Which is why, as anyone can see, it’s so important to pare down (remove) every extraneous bit you can to the core, essential, and ultimately most important insight.
Saturday, October 13th, 2007
I love boiling life down to simple axioms, finding the pithy proverbs that summarize everything neatly and wittily. “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results.” “A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” It’s all part of my search for [...]
Like a Puritan prostitute
Sunday, May 13th, 2007
Could this be the most ironic news lead ever? Former President Bill Clinton said Friday that disasters such as worldwide famine and an obesity epidemic could destroy the U.S. health care system unless politicians begin to look ahead and cooperate. I’m pretty sure, at least, that it says a lot about the state of our [...]