Nov. 23rd, 2009

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LSD caused a lot of brain damage and insanity in people who hadn't taken it. Grand Theft Auto may do the same.

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Steven Pinker recently wrote an excellent review of Malcolm Gladwell, in which he said that Gladwell is brilliant, informative, and always worth reading, but sometimes a bit sloppy,* especially in defense of his favorite oversimplification, that success is all a matter of Pluck & Luck, rather than those nasty old genes. Bookslut has an article on the discussion that offers useful links but thinks that the review is a simple pan and enormity means "large size."

*And so are his editors, or absence thereof, letting a reference to "Igon values" appear and be usable as a Horrible Example.

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Nov. 23rd, 2009 05:41 pm
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As Keith Olbermann says, the Bull of the Pampas is at it again.

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