An editor—especially a brilliant one, as I’ve been lucky to have—pushes against your ideas, hones your writing, demands that you express yourself with the utmost clarity.
~ Gal Beckerman via The Atlantic
:::
Daily Archives: September 13, 2024
Book Recommendation
Republican Party Reptile
Republican Party Reptile: The Confessions, Adventures, Essays and (Other) Outrages
by P.J. O’Rourke author
:::
Crime of the Century
was released on this day in 1974
Crime of the Century – the third studio album released by Supertramp – was released on this day – September 13 – in 1974 by A&M Records.
:::
Quote, Unquote
Knowledge is not for knowing: knowledge is for cutting.
― Michel Foucault
:::
Quote, Unquote
When I speak of the erotic, then I speak of it as an assertion of the life force of women; of that creative energy empowered, the knowledge and use of which we are now reclaiming in our language, our history, our dancing, our loving, our work, our lives.
~ Audre Lorde
:::
Quote, Unquote
Art changes all the time, and when it changes, so does its history.
~ Jacob Mikanowski
:::
Quote, Unquote
Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.
~ Mark Twain
:::
Learning Object
John Mearsheimer | Realism means that “might makes right”
:::
Buffalo State University was founded on this day in 1871
Buffalo State University was founded on this day — September 13 — in 1871.
:::