Archive for January 1st, 2003

New Year’s Resolutions for You

I have no New Year’s Resolutions for myself, because I am perfect just the way I am. But I have a few for my blogroll. The 2 Blowhards should resolve to lose the epistolary format, as the English novel managed to do about 200 years ago. Colby Cosh should resolve to write less well, and […]

Aaron Haspel | Posted January 1, 2003 @ 12:39 PM | General
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  • The modern world does not create our ills; it only drags them into the light.

  • Do not be the sort of person who, if he did not exist, would have to be invented.

  • No cynic would argue for cynicism.

  • People never appreciate how I cringe for them.

  • The definitive counterexample to Marx's thesis that politics is mere superstructure is, of course, the Soviet Union.

  • I am in no way endorsing the rhetorical strategy of beginning endorsements with this phrase.

  • For willingness and ability to obtain a certificate, consult a certified professional.

  • Maven, n. Pedant.

  • A chief source of the world's ills is that it is run largely by people who did well in school.

  • Confusion about pronouns and antecedents will be feminism's enduring legacy.

  • The struggle to assimilate a new idea without disturbing the old ones is hideously physical, like becoming a werewolf.

  • The legislative branch is government as we imagine it, the executive as we know it, the judicial as we resort to it in extremity.

  • Data and science have become our garlic and wolfsbane.

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Testimonials

"Damn I'm glad I hate poetry." —Andrea Harris

"Not a genius."
—Justin Lall

"A humorous blog about T.S. Eliot."
—Joanna Dymond

"Wrong."
—Colby Cosh

"Wrong."
—Jim Henley

"Wrong again."
—George Wallace

"As wrong as it is possible for a human being to be."
—Michaela Cooper