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‘You’d think that people who actually go to the effort of visiting libraries, taking books from them, and then reading said books, would be a little more enlightened as to the harm posed to society by banning books. Alas no, as yesterday the American Library Association published its list of the ten […]
Remember that time John McCain mocked “Vlad” Putin? So does the Internet. Stephen Fincher, Congressional representative of the 8th district of Tennessee, once posted the following observation to his Twitter feed: Half an hour after posting his message, however, Fincher deleted it — thus depriving the world not only of […]
… don’t stick your elbow out the window, or it’ll turn into a fossil. If they ever come up with a swashbuckling school, I think one of the courses should be Laughing, Then Jumping Off Something. At first I thought, if I were Superman, a perfect secret identity would […]
‘The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.’ The 17th-century English poet and polemicist John Milton arrived in NZ under rather inauspicious circumstances. The Endeavour’s...
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