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July 25, 2002

Big Gulps

“A New York City lawyer has filed suit against the four big fast-food corporations, saying their fatty foods are responsible for his client

“Excuse me, stewardess. But I speak jive…”

Via Subaverage: Introducing PossePops, the “solid cold chillin’ [ice cream bar] treat” that comes wrapped in the wisdom of the street. To wit: here’s the message adorning the wrapping of the “Knock You Out” bar — vanilla ice cream with a crunchy milk chocolate coating! Yea Boyz + Girlz, check this out! Using drugs is wack. Don’t play yourself out, ’cause drugs’ll knock you out and put you out of

It’s all in the delivery

Great post on the bureaucratization of the modern academy and the outcome of the “culture wars” by English Prof Erin O’Connor — who in her inspired analysis seems (to me, at least) to be channeling Christina Hoff Sommers: […] bureaucracy is not at all politically neutral; it is, indeed, the engine of central planning, and as such is the far left’s organizational mode of choice. As in socialism, so in