“To be intelligible is to be found out”*

Overweening Generalist on deliberate obscurity in writing, and a look at one of its leading practitioners, Judith Butler, who now appears to have been saying something useful (about gender as performance) underneath all the bafflegab. (It is now widely believed that two ’50s figures who were famous for talking incomprehensibly—Casey Stengel and President Eisenhower—were using a version of this tactic.)
*Oscar Wilde

Thanx to RAW Illumination and Arts & Letters Daily

These are the stories the Dogs tell…

Remembering City, Clifford Simak’s masterpiece.

Thanx to Tor.com.

Good advice

Do not assassinate Donald Trump

Thanx to The Rude Pundit

Shrooms

In 1970 a scholar named John Allegro wrote a book seriously maintaining that Jesus was a psychedelic mushroom. The same theory has been applied to another historical figure who has been the object of religious reverence.

Thanx to Slate Star Codex

Masonic Plot

Teen female bricklayer will go to the Nationals after all.