A few months ago I was talking to a friend who is pretty highly "connected," insofar as he seems to know everyone. So we were talking about some genetics issues and I asked him, "You know who Lee Silver is, right?" There was a pause, and my friend was like, "I just got off the phone with him."
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Due to work stuff, I'm very busy this week, and I don't have time to write a detailed
pathological language post, so I chose something that doesn't take a lot of explanation, but
While browser over at programming.reddit.com, I came across something simultaneously hideous and amazing.
I saw it at Julie's.
"American Music," the Violent Femmes
"California Stars," Billy Bragg and Wilco
"The City of New Orleans," Arlo Guthrie
"Song to Woody," Bob Dylan
"The Body of an American," the Pogues
A wee while ago I learned a good answer to "It's a small world", to wit "No, it's just that the World is a small bourgeois conspiracy".