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Monthly Archives: August 2010

Noted: Idiots and their uses.

In political jargon it was used to describe Soviet sympathisers in Western countries and the attitude of the Soviet government towards them.

Noted: There's nothing funny about the clothes in comics.

Occasionally, stylistic changes in an adaptation filter down to the comics themselves.

Noted: Let them ride in sedan chairs.

Europeans have chosen to have workers support non-workers in their leisure. This is a social choice to which voters are, of course, entitled, and a choice that seemed deserved and even prudent given the achievement of the economic success that Keynes had predicted back in 1930.

Noted: Sign at the American crossroads.

Even now, abortion remains what it has been for more than thirty years: the signpost at the intersection of religion and American public life.

Noted: Sabbath: The rest of the story.

Over the centuries, a colossal halachic structure has been raised around the prohibition of labor, relating it to nearly every facet of human life.