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Living death

A brief but chilling story from North Korea.

Welcome to the blogroll

To Leitmotif, an Objectivist blog based in Mumbai, India. The world shrinks again.

Robert Fagles

Sad news of the death of Robert Fagles. I have long considered his translation of the Iliad to be the best. Fagles struck the ideal balance between literalism and poetry in his epic translations that I believe will make his work last much longer than the strictly literal, and totally unenjoyable, Richmond Lattimore.

Five years of trivia and brilliance

Today is Freespace's fifth bloggiversary. Just think of all the wasted time....

I Saw The Figure Five in Gold by Charles Demuth

Do you know Dick?

Okay, this is just too great.

On the toilet only a month

Turns out the Kansas woman who sat on a toilet so long it stuck to her body was actually only sitting on the toilet for a month, although she did stay in the bathroom for two years. Meanwhile, her boyfriend is in new legal trouble for exposing himself to a teenage girl.

Silliness and seriousness about Shermer

There were a couple of reactions to my comments on Michael Shermer’s The Mind of The Market, just about all of which went quite wide of the mark. Some of them were obviously by people who had not read the book and who accused Shermer of writing “libertarian propaganda,” which is one charge that cannot be fairly leveled at him. (The book is quite the opposite.)

"I don't tell most people this but..."

Ed Brayton has a run-in with one of Those Guys. Similar things have happened to me before. I wish I had reacted as Brayton did. Usually I've just been so stunned that I mumble out something clumsy and find a way to move to another part of the room.

Friday art

Miss Eden by John Singer Sargent

The Florida teacher's union

We now bring you this video clip of recent debates at the meeting of the Florida Education Association.