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And without pretending that he can fix the world. Which is fatuous and provides a cover for business to continue as usual. Ellison is satisfied with being destructive in one domain…

> high-end residential lol

> The whole cleaning industry could be changed. By making it obsolete maybe. Sounds like unemployment.

Obnoxiousness isn't the right word.

Had to be Government students.

The Gates Foundation's answer to the thousands of public libraries Carnegie built is . . . the Khan Academy?

>Bill Gates is not a Western country Except that the Gates Foundation acts like one. Its endowment is larger than the GDP about half of the countries of the world. It exists to pro…

Not sure why you need a cognitive explanation for what, outside rightist establishments, is hardly a controversial sentiment. Western countries telling the rest of the world what t…

What rule is there against condemning your own ancestors?

Rich whites were specified.

Let's hope the Martians fare better than the Native Americans.

Why is psychoanalysis a problem in the humanities? Humanists aren't doing brain surgery. American psychology departments don't give them clinical psychology PhDs. Psychoanalysis is…

BLDGBLOG is a gold-mine for these kind of things. http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/

And a terribly overrated one that won't go away... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elements_of_Style#Criticism

Among the Western public this might be true. But among intellectuals the bigger prejudice is that numbers are "hard." I certainly find them to be so, and have felt like this since …