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Arts & Letters Daily (18 May 2008)

"I was raised on chicken fat." Will Elder, a founding spirit of Mad magazine from 1952 is dead at the age of 86... more ... more
"Black hair means cowardice and great craftiness, yellow and pale white hair shows ignorance and clumsiness." Wild ideas of the Greeks... more
Money can't buy happiness. Okay. But what about just a little bit of happiness? Maybe with money you can be unhappy in comfort... more
Arts & Letters Daily (17 May 2008)

Intellectual: "Someone who doesn't try to soar on the thermals of public opinion." Not bad. And the public intellectual who said it is... more ... more
"Black hair means cowardice and great craftiness, yellow and pale white hair shows ignorance and clumsiness." Wild ideas of the Greeks... more
Money can't buy happiness. Okay. But what about just a little bit of happiness? Maybe with money you can be unhappy in comfort... more