G K Chesterton: The Uses of Diversity, 1921
Too much capitalism does not mean too many capitalists, but too few capitalists.
I’m enjoying Maritza Campos’s comic strip College Roomies from Hell!!! (beginning of archives) a lot more than expected; like several of my favorite strips, it started out rather mundane but soon went engagingly weird.
One Victor Lewis Smith (or possibly Lewis-Smith), to whom I followed a link for a completely unrelated reason, proudly reports:
AS curator of the Museum Of Heads And Limbs That Are Missing From Statues In Other Museums (we have the arms of the Venus de Milo, Mrs Thatcher’s decapitated bonce, numerous ancient Greek noses and fingers, and much much more), I was delighted to acquire Saddam’s feet this week, fresh from the plinth. Hey, don’t knock it. Or, on seconds thoughts, do knock it. That way, there’ll be even more broken pieces for me.
(Did you know that if you set your fingers wrong and try to type “<blockquote>” it can come out “Mbkicjqyite<” ?
Geoffrey Nunberg alerts us that in Arabic both Iraq and Qatar are accented on the first syllable. I wonder why we got it wrong. (Link from languagehat)