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The finalists for the 2010 Wacky Warning Labels award have been announced. Offered without comment: The Minnesota Department of Human Rights says “Ladies’ Night” discriminates against men by depriving them of the right to “full and equal enjoyment” of the establishments offering them. (Obscure Store and Reading Room) “A Dutch court has ruled that disclosing […] Okay, I’ve got a poli sci degree, I was a political reporter and I stay fairly up to date. But I evidently have grown or remain blindly (or perhaps happily) ignorant to much of politics. For the first time in my 36 years as a registered voter, I voted Tuesday as a registered Republican. The […] When the June 9, 1973, issue of Billboard magazine briefly reviewed Jimmy Buffett’s new release, it called it a “[g]ood soft rock collection.” Evidently, the reviewer didn’t get any clues from the album title or liner notes or pay any attention to the opening notes or other content of the album. Okay, there might be […] Where is your most often used (favorite) reading spot? Do you have more than one? What makes your favorite spot just that? All things considered, my favorite spot is probably out on the deck of our house. Now, granted, it is far from a prime (or even desirable) location in the winter. But spring, […] In his Philosophical Dictionary, Voltaire distinguished between history and fable. The former, he said, is “the recital of facts represented as true” whereas fable is “the recital of facts of facts represented as fiction.” In terms of historiography, that is a fair distinction. In terms of grasping history, though, fiction may be as effective as […] |
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