Author Archives: Anton

disclaimer

Posted on Friday, 2002 February 22 by Anton

Last night I mentioned linguists and misguided egalitarians in the same breath, and it occurs to me that some might take that somehow as a swipe at a certain public figure. Let me assure both my readers that I was … Continue reading →

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scandal

Posted on Friday, 2002 February 22 by Anton

Jay Zilber looks at a burning issue.

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you have three last chances

Posted on Friday, 2002 February 22 by Anton

Several blogs today have mentioned a certain former president of Megaserbia Jugoslavija; and that reminded me of Private Eye’s log of the twenty-two last chances in 1991-99.

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is nothing sacred?

Posted on Friday, 2002 February 22 by Anton

Oh dear. Tony Adragna frets about tax havens: . . . not all activity in tax havens is questionable, but when the activity has as its primary purpose the avoidance of taxation, then we run afoul of the letter and spirit of … Continue reading →

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where the chicks aren’t

Posted on Friday, 2002 February 22 by Anton

Rich Hailey asks whether “becoming a libertarian [is] a good way to meet chicks.” I gotta say no, at least not in San Francisco. (Although, come to think of it, the last time I got lucky was with someone who … Continue reading →

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a kind of forgery

Posted on Friday, 2002 February 22 by Anton

acb relays an article about anachronisms of typeface in movies. I remembered my glee in spotting Palatino (1950) in a tv episode of Poirot (Thirties), and post-1918 Russian handwriting described as “very old . . . hard to read” in Lovejoy.

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it’s a dog-trade-with-dog world

Posted on Thursday, 2002 February 21 by Anton

Peter Hollo cites an interview with Richard Dawkins, at an address which has unfortunately gone bad since January 15. Hollo writes: . . . you can read Dawkins distancing himself from a kind of Thatcherite, “Darwinian”, dog-eat-dog world of the … Continue reading →

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