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March 16, 2007 KR Blog Uncategorized

Short Takes

“Is someone getting the best, the best, the best [begins at 5:30, fyi] of you?”

And also: “I’ve got another confession, my friend: I’m no fool.”

Oh boy. Here we go. I’m not sure I can keep track of two feuds at once.

Making the best of the one month allotted the fairer sex.

Unknown creators may dream of being discovered on the Web, but celebrities get prime placement in conventional news media.

“When asked why there were so few women in the original Monty Python skits, Eric Idle grows querulous. ‘Listen, Monty Python was a show written by six men and performed by the writers. We weren’t women, so we didn’t have many women in what we wrote. We just wrote comedy. Not male, not female, just purely – uncompromisingly – comedy.'” (via Books Inq)

What about Jamestown?

It’s all right with me. Not “alright,” which is not a word.

“This is a small book with a big agenda: changing the face of British diplomacy.”

Err. What.

“Christopher Hitchens made an interesting, if troubling, argument about Arendt’s analysis of anti-Semitism in modern times.”

Boys need their own bookshelves?

“At this point, I noticed I was failing to open the magazine.”