May 2013
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I don't know much about Sam Harris, one of the belligerent "new atheists" ("What is new about them?", I always want to ask). But simply from having come across bits of his writing here and there on the web I have the impression that he's a very angry man. So it was only a little…
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From "The Aunt and the Sluggard"; Bertie has had to lend both his apartment and Jeeves to a friend, and is living alone in a hotel: You know, I rather think I agree with those poet-and-philosopher Johnnies who insist that a fellow ought to be devilish pleased if he has a bit of trouble. All…
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Probably you've heard a remark attributed to Baudelaire that goes something like this: The greatest trick of the devil is to persuade men that he does not exist. I suppose the following passage from one of his prefaces to Flowers of Evil, quoted by David Yezzi in the April issue of The New Criterion, must be…
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Yesterday I clicked on a news story with that title because I thought it would be amusing and was curious as to what the answer would be, and how it was determined. As it turned out, it was amusing more because of its slight earnest professor-analyzing-a-joke quality than for the light it shed on the…
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You may have noticed that the spam catcher is not catching anything, hasn't been all day today. I haven't changed anything that I know of, and reported the problem to TypePad earlier today, but so far no response. I may have to enable "captcha", which I very much hate.
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