My old friend, Mrs Carter, could make a pudding, as well as translate Epictetus. — Samuel Johnson As noted yesterday, liking sports is as optional as liking ballet, but then there are polymaths like Elizabeth Carter whose intellectual curiosity and wide span of interests was testimony to the sexism inherent in the term “Renaissance […]
The Gamestop/Reddit gambit creates one of those “Where do I start?” sorts of days, but certainly Alex (Telegraph.UK) is an excellent place, even though he wasn’t commenting specifically on that. I often — perhaps too often — admit that Alex can be kind of nerdy for those who have not been immersed in the business […]
We’ve talked a lot about how politics have been sneaking over onto the funny pages, but now the funny stuff is sneaking over onto the editorial pages, as witness this K Chronicles (Daily Kos). The punchline particularly put me on the floor since, as I think I’ve mentioned, Trump began his reign with a lie […]