Word advice

Saying “Thank you” instead of “Sorry.”

Thanx to resonant

ETA: On second thought, this can be somewhat passive-aggressive, like “Thank you for not smoking” meaning “We will have your ass arrested if you smoke here.”

Against interiority

The name most tribes have for themselves means “The People.” Similarly, a tribe of literary critics has “Theory.” It doesn’t like the inner life.

Thanx to Arts & Letters Daily

Top 100

I don’t believe in Best Evers, but if I had to pick a best British novel of all time, it would probably be Middlemarch. And the rest of the list has lotsa women.

Thanx to oursin

Free and public

Giant online library of Jewish texts

Thanx to Metafilter

Make love not war

One man is replacing guns with sex toys in photos of GOP politicians.

Thanx to Metafilter

Prematurely resorting to prose

Cannibalism isn’t the bad part of this story.

Thanx to File 770

And the Dick got up and slowly walked away

With his plan to ban Muslims, tRump has achieved something many considered impossible: He is worse than Dick Cheney.

ETA: A comparable victory in the race to the bottom: J.K. Rowling has announced that tRump is worse than Lord Voldemort.

Thanx to File 770