Juan Cole posts Andreas Gursky’s amazing photograph of the Kuwait Stock Exchange:
Deeply bizarre? Or not?
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Monthly Archives: July 2012
Mullen explains, and Dobbs nails it
Paul Mullen is succinct, and David Dobbs refines the argument :
…the movies are a enormous, constant, heavily influential part of an American culture that fetishizes violence and glamorizes, to the point of ten-year wars, a militarized, let-it-rain approach to conflict resolution…
a fine distinction
From Arnold Zwicky’s blog, quoting Grammarist:
Irony is similar to sarcasm, but the goal of sarcasm is to mock, while irony is usually used to make subtler points.
Oh, very nice.