When you’re selling a book of poetry and you offer a sample poem as an enticement, you will presumably pick one of the better poems in the collection, not one of the worse ones. And so if the sample poem is unbelievably wretched, that would tend to bode ill for the book as a whole.
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Chip the Glasses and Crack the Plates, That’s What Bilbo Baggins Hates
Our first glimpse of Martin Freeman as the “first-class and legendary burglar,” with his dwarvish companions in the background:
Benedict Cumberbatch has been confirmed as playing the voice of the Chief Burglee, so the scene under Lonely Mountain will be a Sherlockian reunion of sorts.
After the Revolution
Great cartoon asking: what if war were treated the way abortion is now, and vice versa?
Way Long Gone, Part 2
Greetings from Lancaster NH, where I have wifi internet access but no cellphone signal. PorcFest is great fun so far – it’s like Woodstock for rational people. Seeing lots of old friends. Beautiful countryside also; nice to be in this neck of the woods again. There’s a C4SS/ALL table where the literature looks vaguely familiar. I’ve given a couple of talks already and have more coming up.
Free Talk Live, a Keene-based libertarian radio show, is broadcasting from PorcFest all week. They interviewed me last night; you can listen here. My bit starts around 23:24.
Way Long Gone
Tomorrow I’m off to Lancaster NH for PorcFest. Then the week after that I have an IHS gig at Towson University in Baltimore. Später, gator.
Herbert Spencer’s Hat Trick
A correspondent writes:
Saints be praised!
Herbert Spencer has received a surprisingly positive and balanced assessment in a ‘popular’ source.
2012 must be the end of time!
The article is actually fairly positive (albeit superficial) about Spencer’s ideas, but makes Spencer the person sound a bit of a jerk. But that’s fair, because he was.