– Stephen King
“Literature, I tell aspiring writers, is a mug’s game. The author of Moby Dick died in his seventies utterly forgotten…Not one newspaper obituary noted his passing. Some thirty years after he died…the academic field of American literature was swamped by a tsunami of second thoughts about Melville…[who now is] right up there with Aristotle, Shakespeare, Cervantes, and Tolstoy in the University of Chicago’s Great Books of the Western World, #48 out of 54….A mug’s game, I say, a crapshoot, the stakes one’s heart’s blood.”
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The stage is set for the 158th running of
the Melbourne Cup. Explore our interactive guide to the horses chasing
Australian racing's greatest prize.
A guide to betting on the Melbourne Cup
Betting on the Melbourne Cup is virtually a rite of passage for Australians.
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Winx owners sure she could have won The Everest or Melbourne Cup
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Keep Apu! One Indian-America Argues In Favor Of The Simpsons’ Controversial Character
"Apu has gotten a lot of flak lately for being racist depiction of Indian-Americans," writes Bhaskar Sunkara (the founding editor of Jacobin, if you're looking for leftist cred). "It would seem that the solution is to have every media depiction of an Indian guy in America be Kal Penn playing a doctor. But a lot of us pump gas too. A lot of us say things like 'Thank you come again,' because good service counts when you're living on the razor edge of a society that doesn't care about struggling people – wherever they're originally from." … Read More
PC KILLS AN INDIAN STAR:
Comedy great Mel Brooks once said that our “stupidly politically correct” culture would result in the death of comedy. I think he is being proven right. Even The Simpsons tried to confront this last year. In an episode that peripherally alluded to the Apu controversy, Lisa Simpson says, in response to a question from Marge, “Something that started decades ago and was applauded and inoffensive is now politically incorrect. What can you do?”