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A lady once asked him how he came to define ‘pastern’, the knee of a horse: instead of making an elaborate defence, as might be expected, he at once answered, “Ignorance, Madam, pure ignorance.” — Boswell’s “Life of Samuel Johnson” Sometimes the best defense is no defense at all, but for an arrogant egotist like Johnson […]

I like Pat Bagley‘s take on the Amazon forest fires because I don’t know what’s going on down there, but I know it doesn’t help to have people dismissing it or obscuring it or exploiting it. Which is to say that the level of crisis seems less dependent on the actual impact on our climate […]