Gammelost²

Once in a while some journalist really shoots himself in the foot:
Let me put this bluntly, in language even a busy blogger can understand: Criticism — and its humble cousin, reviewing — is not a democratic activity. It is, or should be, an elite enterprise, ideally undertaken by individuals who bring something to the party [...]

What a great idea!

I aim to receive a cease and desist order.

Surveillance camera performance art. And they have a point, don’t they? Or are you prohibited from commenting government policy in your modern Western democracy?

Here’s a good reason for living elsewhere.

For use outside of Russia.

Call that humiliation? We have shown the Iranians how to treat political prisoners, and they ignore us completely.

Not in the real world; In Nevada. What a stupid idea (to everyone except the warped American gun lobby).

I understand the British government has “plans to set landmark legally-binding targets” for reducing greenhouse-gas emissions. I welcome the plans; it’s about time someone sewed the prime minister’s lips together.

Thomas Mallon, whoever he is, poses 10 Questions about the future of the humanities in America in The American Scholar. I haven’t read anything from this magazine before, and I’m not sure I will take the trouble to do so again; the questions hardly deserve publication.