Stereotyped rhetoric repeats itself, first as clich??, then as irony–and as a way of talking about baseball.
Tom Wolfe: “still a moron,” asked to “recuse himself from popular culture,” essentially taking it from all sides.
Trivia books: making us too dumb to read real ones (via AL Daily).
Google is not a verb (via Maud Newton).
Watch out for long lines at the post office today–all those fiction writers.