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“The threat to men of great dignity, privilege and pretense is not from the radicals they revile; it is from accepting their own myth. Exposure to reality remains the nemesis of the great — a little understood thing.”
Homo Sum:
humani nil a me alienum puto
As honest as a gambling man can be
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- Still true after more than 40 years
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- For Fans of The Wire (and the morbidly curious)
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- What I'm Reading Right Now
- Lachryma Dolti
- Bertrand Russell Essays
- Whether you believe it or not, you should be jealous
- Punting
- Last Call
- A Targeted Miscellany
- Sic transit gloria mundi
- For the discerning individual
- Miscellany: Your lab fees at work.
- Apparently I need to move back to Ontario...
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- Wow
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- ► August
(22)
- Bringing The Tone Back Down: Shut Up, Little Man!
- Expose yourself to hours of great ideas
- Gay Politicians
- Professor Membrane Strikes Again
- I think I'd rather be outside the tent pissing in...
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- My Inner Academic Nerd Is Gleeful
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- Like A Flash
- A Weekend Miscellany
- This is for Mike Drake
- Gospel Of The Knife
- Get Your War On Annoying Public Intellectuals
- Small Victories
- You go, Rakusin!
- The Day The Bulls Won
- I like Sherlock Holmes.
- Mixing It Up 5: Minksellaneous
- I am an information junkie
- I think the madness is over...
- ► July
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- Mixing It Up 4: "Love Songs"
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- U.S.A. Number One!
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- They'll probably charge him with terrorism
- Q.O.T.D.
- A really fun way to waste some time.
- An Interesting Meme
- Proving Once Again That The Real World Is At Least As Creative As Fiction...
- The Supremes (US Version)
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- How I Welcomed Canada Day
- ► June
(21)
- This one's just for me
- A Wednesday Miscellany
- I expected nothing less
- Banjos playing through the broken glass
- The great paperback giveaway, part 2
- Professor Membrane On: A Dead Supernova
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- The great paperback giveaway, part 1
- I never thought I'd see this in the National Post
- Graph says it all
- Dadhood
- A little miscellany
- How much civil disobedience can you buy for $7.63?
- We are living in the future
- A few comic book things...
- I guess it had to happen...
- Let me get this straight...
- He's not Stewart...
- Learning from porn.
- Breaking The Silence
- ► May
(18)
- A pop culture holding action
- Six Years!
- A Big Box Of Books
- Work
- Book-hunting in Melbourne
- They really do have a word for everything...
- Under The Covers
- Harper takes another page from the Bush playbook
- Minor Local Mysteries
- Amazon.ca, British Books, What The Hell?
- Several Dissimilar Things You Can Read For Free
- It's about time
- Canada is measurably different from the U.S.
- Yay for Justine!
- On Speeding Tickets
- Those who fail to learn from history...
- Saturday night with the books
- A Friday Afternoon Miscellany
- ► April
(36)
- Relief, followed rapidly be shock
- Go Jon Go!
- WARNING: The consumption of alcohol is the leading cause of inexplicable rug burns on the forehead.
- The Fate of the Artist (and/or Writer)
- Buying The War
- I know at least one author/musician who will be pleased by this...
- Are the spammers finally giving up?
- An old wine softens old regrets
- Perspective. That's all I'm saying.
- A pick me up
- Politics + Nerdery: Two great tastes...
- Fellow pedants rejoice!
- There was at least one moment of true genius.
- Proud and Unrepentant: Part 3
- QOTD
- An aside on puns and headlines
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