Links With Your Coffee - Saturday
"Compromise and conciliation is the academic theory of change. It just doesn't work in the real world. Fighting for conviction is the historic reality of change."—John Edwards
- The Regressive Antidote - Home I'm angry too.
- Letterman Makes Deal With Striking Writers - New York Times
- 'Archbishop of Canterbury Praises Richard Dawkins' by Times Online - RichardDawkins.net
- 'Story' versus 'literature' | Book club | Guardian Unlimited Books This explains why a movie like Atonement while worth seeing doesn't quite work.
How much of a book is "story" and how much is "literature"? Or can't they be separated?
In one way they can be separated very easily. We can take the plot, the events, the story part of a novel and make them into a play or a film. What we have to leave behind is the "literature", just as poetry, according to Robert Frost, is what gets lost in translation. And we can all think of examples of books that are mostly "story" and hardly any "literature", and different books that are largely "literature" and not much "story". - KR Blog » Blog Archive » “IN ORDER TO MAKE A PERFECT AND BEAUTIFUL MACHINE, IT IS NOT REQUISITE TO KNOW HOW TO MAKE IT.” Daniel Dennett
- There Is a God: How the World’s Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind - Antony Flew with Roy Abraham Varghese - Books - Review - New York Times
- Christmas with Christopher Hitchens | The A.V. Club
- AlterNet: Iowa: Edwards Takes on Corporate Greed Corporatism is the most important issue of the campaign. Go John Edwards
Comments
The Hitchens interview was very interesting as always. The reference to tom Lehrer at the end certainly brought back some memories from my college days. Attached is a link to one of my favourite Lehrer tunes:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f72CTDe4-0
I like what Edwards is saying, but the real test is whether he will back it up with action. His record doesn't exactly match up with his current rhetoric.
Peter G., thanks big time for that link.
That was pretty good. It's refreshing to see this in the mainstream media, calling BS.
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