Recent Comments

1. 7 months ago on Non Sequitur

   “Democracy is government by the people and for the people, on the theory that the people should get the kind of government they deserve, good and hard.”

   — H L Mencken or somebody like him

2. 11 months ago on Pearls Before Swine

   I’ve been listening to a set of audio lectures about Ulysses. They’re pretty enjoyable and make it a lot more clear about what’s going on. (Some of the mapping between the Greek story and what Joyce wrote seems contrived, but that’s the world of literary criticism for you).

   There is a copy of Finnegan’s Wake on my bookshelf, staring at me. It frightens me. :-)

3. 12 months ago on Tom the Dancing Bug

   I no longer watch CNN. It is not trustworthy on anything that matters.

4. about 1 year ago on Rubes

   Won’t lie, had to look it up, and laughed.

   Now, about Thomas Crapper . . .

5. about 1 year ago on Strange Brew

   Q: “Why is academia so cut-throat?”

   A: “Because the stakes are so low.”

6. about 1 year ago on Free Range

   Best thing about it, they have to throw one of themselves out to descend.

7. almost 2 years ago on Pearls Before Swine

   I deleted my Twitter account a month ago (also, Reddit). I am MUCH happier as a result.

8. about 2 years ago on Ink Pen

   This is how Neal Stephenson’s Seveneves starts?

9. about 2 years ago on Free Range

   If you could combine Golf with, say, the Javelin Catch . . .

10. about 2 years ago on Pearls Before Swine

    Section 230 would disagree with this. Not defending the utter, stupid hellpit that is Facebook, but it’s not how things work. Protection of the content of online services is a double-edged sword.