One last bit of housekeeping before a roughly two-week break.
Scatology 1
If they’d given him an enema, they could have buried him in a matchbox.
Christopher Hitchens on the passing of Jerry Falwell (Sr.) via Andrew Sullivan
Scatology 2
So full of shit his breath makes acid rain
Bruce Cockburn on the Rev. Ian Paisley (an Orangeman rabble-rouser in “the troubles” of Northern Ireland)
Literature
Literature in itself knows more than the theory of literature knows.
Jon Fosse, 2023 Nobel Laureate for Literature
“Resistance”
Progressive-speak for antisemitic attacks on Jews by Palestinians and Hamas. (See Harvard Shrugs at Jew-Hatred – WSJ)