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"Bad news concerns few, but good news can upset a whole culture." Marshall McLuhan

Although I see an existentialist thread running through J.D. Salinger's works, Salinger himself seems to be the antithesis of Albert Camus' ideal absurd man and even of Holden Caulfield. Salinger had immense success with The Catcher in the Rye and Franny and Zooey, but he wasn&

They say ESPN got what it was asking for when it hired Rush Limbaugh: political commentary in a sports forum. I say CBS and the NFL got what they were asking for when they hired Kid Rock, Nelly, Janet Jackson, and Justin Timberlake: white trash morals in a sports forum.

Vice is a monster of such frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; But seen too oft, familiar with its face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. Alexander Pope

"The present cannot be revealed to people until it has become yesterday." Wyndham Lewis.

The early pages of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited describe the drunken antics of students Lord Sebastian Flyte and the narrator, Charles Ryder. Ryder “got drunk often, but through an excess of high spirits, in the love of the moment, and the wish to prolong and enhance it; Sebastian

Detest witch burnings, but detest even more the idea that witches ought not be burned.

I often vacation in Ossineke, Michigan at my family's cottage on Lake Huron. Ossineke has two major attractions. The first is a swell tavern called the Wagon Wheel, a joint consisting entirely of one big room, complete with a juke box (40% Country, 20% Western, 30% old rock-n-roll,

I have fought my fight, I have lived my life I have drunk my share of wine; From Trier to Koln there was never a knight Had a merrier life than mine. Charles Kingsley

The hodag was a dreadful beast that terrorized the logging camps of the nineteenth century. It had great iron teeth, a long flat tail of bone with steel-like serrated edges. It ate bears, deer, and wildcats, but its favorite food was landlookers: those men that scouted areas for suitable logging