Friday, December 30, 2011

The ease with which people can possess astonishingly contradictory qualities is one of the mysteries of human nature

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Be a Jerk: The Worst Business Lesson From the Steve Jobs Biography by Tom McNichol. The ease with which people can possess astonishingly c...

You turn the page, and forget what you know

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Michael Crichton in Why Speculate . Media carries with it a credibility that is totally undeserved. You have all experienced this, in what...
Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Global data grows approximately 40 percent every year

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Interesting estimate, though unsourced. From Data Journalism: Facts Are Sacred by Pablo Mancini It is estimated that the volume of global ...
Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Social Justice

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Heh. Thomas Sowell in Random Thoughts on the Passing Scene . What do you call it when someone steals someone else's money secretly? Th...
Friday, December 23, 2011

A festival of British modernist architectural incompetence and brutalism

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A Case in Point by Theodore Dalrymple. The concentration of ugly modern architecture in the UK is so startling, cheek-by-jowel as it so of...
Thursday, December 22, 2011

Bending to a common purpose is more important than arising from a common place

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From How Do You Prove You’re an Indian? by David Teuer. Bending to a common purpose is more important than arising from a common place. Pe...
Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Establishments die when they refuse to make changes; insurgencies die when they fail to discover that protest and governing are not the same things.

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From The Tea Party train wreck that never happened by Noemie Emery. Establishments die when they refuse to make changes; insurgencies die w...
Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Academic inequality is socially acceptable

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The Inequality Map by David Brooks. The many forms of pluralism in the USA. Heh. I will provide you with a guide to the American inequal...
Friday, December 16, 2011

And that evening his father came back to life

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Act Three: The midlife monologue of John Lithgow book review by Victoria Ordin. Drama begins with Lithgow’s recollection of the summer of ...
Thursday, December 15, 2011

He dedicated the book to a real car

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Kate Grimond in The tale of Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang , reviews the history and context of Ian Fleming (of James Bond fame) writing the childr...