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Articles I patrol regularly include:
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- See also: my user page on Wikipedia, my user page on Commons
Some quotations I happen to like:
- A household is a business given over to caring for small, temporarily insane people, a business subject to cash-flow problems, endless legal harassments, run by people who expect to have sex with each other, who occupy the same space, and who go nuts when either party has sex with anyone else.
- Clark Glymour, "What Went Wrong? Reflections on Science by Observation and The Bell Curve", Philosophy of Science 65 (1998), pp. 1–32
- The obvious solution [to the problems of the U.S. educational system] is not privatization or more decentralization, but national educational standards of accomplishment with uniform national tests, and national school funding. More bureaucrats the Republicans say, as though we are better off with real estate brokers running school boards and fighting, as Herrnstein and Murray point out, against more homework. I say a public school that worked as well as the post office would be a godsend.
- ibid., p. 29
- It may be that the jury would incline to regard a practising lawyer as a man of probity whose word was prima facie worthy of belief. But the belief of lawyers in their own probity is not universally shared, and there are those who believe them to be capable of almost any chicanery or sharp practice.
- Lord Bingham of Cornhill, writing for the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, in Singh v. The State (Trinidad and Tobago) [2005] UKPC 35 (03 August 2005)
- Jordan Bassior: Myspace is good if you're looking for dates
Matthias Warkus: The cutting-edge design of most Myspace profile pages will, as an added benefit, also give you cancer of the retina.- Usenet article <ejcmob$2r8d$1@news.nnrp.de> (2006-11-14)
- You can't get a leopard to change his spots. In fact, now that I come to think of it, you can't really get a leopard to appreciate the notion that it has spots. You can explain it carefully to the leopard, but it will just sit there looking at you, knowing that you are made of meat. After a while it will perhaps kill you.
- Geoffrey Pullum, "Less than three years: a policy revision", Language Log (2007-01-04)
- This makes for exceedingly confusing maps, especially since unified maps of all the train lines in Tokyo are nigh-impossible to find, and look like the aftermath of someone throwing a bushel of kittens into a yarn factory.
- [Dragonlance:] It's like someone took 8bit Theatre, then removed all the Story and all the Funny, leaving only distilled stupid.
- [N]o one renders English like W; he renders it as a butcher might render fat.
- Robert Lieblich, Usenet article <46943DC2.64A60769@yahoo.com> (2007-07-11)
- It takes a strong stomach to listen to the full CD-length version of "Requiem for a sleeve bearing".
- The ablaut distinction between lie and lay (and the parallel ones sit / set and rise / raise, all of which relate irregular inchoatives referring to body motion with regular derived causatives) is old, and therefore venerable to some. It's sacred morphology, like whom or Meā culpā!, and unnatural only to those who don't find history natural. Thus it becomes a badge also of education and social status in the Anglophone world.
- The Fox agenda is distinctive not because Fox makes stuff up (though it's good at that) but because Fox builds and emphasizes particular categories, whether the stories in them are true or not. It's the national clearinghouse for stories about random episodic danger to children and pregnant moms. Fox scours the British tabloid press for stories about Muslim efforts to stamp out Barbie, Valentine's Day and the Three Little Pigs so you don't have to! Fox's agenda keeps you up to speed on the War On Christmas, the ACLU's efforts to turn your kids into socialist zombie apostles of sex, drugs and treason, and the doings of various unrepentant terrorists.
- Fred Vultee, "Una tarántula en un plato de nata", Headsup: The Blog (2009-03-14)
- Science journalism isn't very good, but most of it isn't malificent. Fox journalism, on the other hand, is -- oh, how to put this? -- corrupt: anti-science and pro-stupid, not to mention nativist, pro-disease and a range of other unseemly traits, all in the service of its political masters. You can fix stupid, or at least you can try, but you can't fix evil.
- Fred Vultee, "Science journalism: Dr. Evil edition", Headsup: The Blog (2009-05-15)
- When you're a narcissist, every doorknob becomes a mirror.
- People who cling to the idea that Fox is a form of journalism might wish to ask why Fox seems bent on ensuring that the population is scared and stupid. Put more simply: Why does Fox hate America?
- Fred Vultee, "Fear factor: reeling in the panic", Headsup: The Blog (2010-01-08)
- David Brooks is a cartoonishly bad writer, true. But even an odious heap of freshly composted George Will like this column shouldn't have its shoelaces tied together in the editing process.
- Fred Vultee, "First, do no harm", Headsup: The Blog (2011-12-13)
