Still more juvenilia: “An Epic Poem” (age 11) and “Vocabulary Stories” (ages 10-12).
The first one has a sort of Fourth-of-July theme.
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Transatlantic Tedium
More juvenilia (ages 11-12): “Tiri of Portugal” (a boring story about a Portuguese boy traveling to America on his own) and “Flight to Borango” (a potentially interesting but unfinished story about an American boy traveling to Kenya on his own).
Red Herring
Commenting on “bane-herrings” as an Icelandic kenning for “swords,” Ben Waggoner quietly drops into his translation of The Sagas of Ragnar Lodbrok, among the otherwise serious scholarly endnotes, this one (p. 114, n. 4):
For more on the early medieval use of herrings as chopping tools, see Monty Python and the Holy Grail, scene 19.
Atlas Shrunk, Part 12: A Screen of Rays Calculated Against Everything
“One of the lessons we learned from Part 1 is that we need to use, in addition to the online media where we had that success, we also need to do more traditional media marketing.”
— Harmon Kaslow, producer on Atlas Shrugged Part II.
No kidding. A movie for which I never saw a single tv ad, and which had one of the most boring posters ever created, did badly at the box office? Who coulda seen that coming?
How Corporate Liberals Win
Bill Scher confesses that mainstream liberalism is essentially corporatist/fascist – but he thinks the bug is a feature. (CHT Christopher Morris.)
I’m a Mack, and I’m PC
I partly agree with this and partly disagree with it, being more sympathetic to PC than Jeremy is; and I don’t think putting pressure on bigots is automatically “oppressive” in the negative sense, let alone “totalitarian.” (By analogy, defensive violence is not on the same moral level as aggressive violence.) But this is still one of the more thoughtful discussions of the issue I’ve seen.
My sincere apologies for the title of this post.