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Monday: May 26, 2008Bad Ideas Are EternalFiled under: — site admin @ 12:10 AM GMT-0500
Two entries in Flaubert’s catalogue of inane clichés, the Dictionnaire des Idées Reçues (Dictionary of Accepted Ideas, tr. Jacques Barzun) are depressingly familiar:
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I hadn’t been to your blog in years. I regret it.
(sorry)
Enjoyable stuff.
Comment by chris — Monday: May 26, 2008 @ 5:31 PM GMT-0500
Those who bitch about free trade are in the wrong line of work.
Comment by Alan Kellogg — Tuesday: May 27, 2008 @ 5:52 AM GMT-0500