Facebook Frolics 0
Shorter Susan Estrich: A Constitutional lawyer Zuckerberg’s not.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Be polite to your escort.
In a rather unusual twist, the politeness practitioner is in custody.
Geeking Out 0
The Plasma desktop environment with the QMMP media player using a legacy Winamp skin playing The Mystery of 31 New Inn by R. Austin Freeman on Ubuntu MATE on a Zareason Mediabox. The GKrellM system monitor is in the lower right corner. Swisswatch provides the analog clock.
The Meme Chance 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Ira Hyman muses on the attractions and dangers of internet memes, particularly those that combine a picture with some text. Among other thoughts, he suggests that they make falsehoods digestible.
Here’s an excerpt:
I’ve read a very nice statement about being stardust that was attributed to Einstein and placed with a picture of the physicist. But Einstein never made the statement. Or consider this Socrates meme. Again, a lovely quote attributed to a famous thinker. And there’s no evidence that Socrates ever said anything like that. These fake quotes attach one idea to a well-known person and give the quote more validity. Nonetheless, these memes remain out there and I’ve seen several similar fake quotes in my social media feed.
I commend the entire piece to your attention.
A Poem, Not by Henry Gibson 0
(Warning: Some mild language.)
