What our culture is doing

The asshole factory

Thanx to Metafilter

One of the greats

Remembering Cordwainer Smith, including the theory that he was Robert Lindner's patient in The Fifty-Minute Hour. I have also heard the theory that he was a transvestite. Larry McMurtry, in Books: A Memoir, says that he purchased Smith's book collection but declined his bra collection.

EI

Emotional intelligence (if you liked military intelligence…) has a dark side.