The author of this blog will be “on hiatus” – the English language’s fanciest words for “off loafing” – during the week of June 30. Thus were scores of defenceless readers spared approximately 347 increasingly insensitive references to, and schematic diagrams of, the contents of the Verne Troyer sex tape…
Categories: Feschuk on the famous
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The author of this blog will be “on hiatus” – the English language’s fanciest…
From Macleans
World
A royal honour? Thanks, but no thanks.
The roster of people who’ve snubbed the Queen reveals as much covert vanity as it does quiet principle
Photo
Gothamatic 8.2.2012
Every day, Zoran Milich walks the streets of New York City, camera in hand
Jesse Brown
Evgeny Morozov: note to a grumpy pundit
It’s a pity to let the naysayer role obscure valid insights into Internet-savvy authoritarian regimes
Brian D. Johnson Unscreened
Nazis invade from the dark side of the moon!
If you do just one thing today, it should be to watch the trailer for ‘Iron Sky’
Canada
The Shafia honour killing trial—Chapter 2
The roots of a tortured clan
Capital Read
Dickens at 200: still the best we’ve got on being poor
His way of forcing the reader to see and smell the squalor of 19th century England is still unmatched in its moral force
