Wolfe was in the office looking at television, which gives him a lot of pleasure. I have seen him turn it on as many as eight times in one evening, glare at it from one to three minutes, turn it off, and go back to his book.
— Rex Stout, The Golden Spiders
Raised by collies, this lamb thinks she is a dog. [video]
Mount Tyson named after Fawcett - people carry grandmother with ms us a mountain
October in Canberra heralds the annual reporting season for government departments and agencies. Angus Taylor’s brainchild, the Infrastructure and Project Financing Agency (IPFA), has sallied forth with its latest 2018/19 Annual Report. Jommy Tee reports on the agency for who knows what.
PayDaze at IPFA: the Agency for Who Knows What leads the way on disclosure, not
Huang Xiangmo's $135m planning windfall
The Australian Financial Review
The
Chinese billionaire stands to make a $135 million profit from a Sydney
planning decision, thanks to a local councillor who failed to
declare ...
Matraville: Residents oppose Pratt's Orora, Suez incinerator plan ...
Exclusive: despite reaping profits of more than $340m since 2013, a Pratt holding company has paid little tax
Public Monopolies Are a Good Thing Jacobin
Scott Galloway, the best-selling author and well-known tech-industry MEdia Dragon and Pundit, is a professor of marketing at New York University’s Stern School of Business.
NYU professor calls WEwork wewtf and slams bankers
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In
the 1980s, Michael Milken embodied Wall Street greed. A swashbuckling
financier, he was charged with playing a central role in a vast
insider-trading scheme and was sent to prison for violating federal
securities and tax laws. He was an inspiration for the Gordon Gekko
character in the film “Wall Street.”
Mr.
Milken has spent the intervening decades trying to rehabilitate his
reputation through an influential nonprofit think tank, the Milken
Institute, devoted to initiatives “that advance prosperity.”
O'Donnell shines in Joe Biden interview
CBS’s Norah O’Donnell interviews Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden for Sunday’s “60 Minutes.” (Photo by Eric Kerschner for CBS News/"60 Minutes")
The big interview of the weekend was Norah
O’Donnell’s conversation on Sunday’s “60 Minutes” with Democratic presidential
hopeful Joe Biden. While “60 Minutes” always has been a needle-moving TV
news show, it’s this kind of interview that reminds us just how influential the
iconic show remains.
The Biden interview was outstanding, thanks to O’Donnell. She
touched on all of the pertinent topics, including Russian interference into the
election, Facebook, and his main Democratic opponents Bernie Sanders and
Elizabeth Warren.
But here were the most interesting parts:
Why has Barack Obama not endorsed him?
“I asked him not to,” Biden said. “He said, 'OK.’ I think it's
better — I think he thinks it's better for me. I have no doubt when I'm the
nominee he'll be out on the campaign trail for me.”
What would Biden say to Donald Trump after Trump has accused him
and his son, Hunter, of being corrupt?
“Mr. President, release your tax returns,” Biden said. “Let's
see how straight you are, OK old buddy? I put out 21 years of mine. So show us
your tax returns, bud — wh-what are you hiding? You want to deal with
corruption? Start to act like it. Release your tax returns or shut up.”
And, would he be OK with his legacy if he doesn’t become
president?
“I'm not worried
about my legacy,” Biden said. “What I am worried about is the country. Four
years of Donald Trump will be very hard to overcome, but we can. Eight years of
Donald Trump will fundamentally change the nature of who we are as a country.
And it'll take a generation — a generation or more for us to get back on
track.”
Kafka: The Years of Insight, by Reiner Stach
You have made me unhappy. I bought your "Metamorphosis" as a present for my cousin, but she doesn't know what to make of the story. My cousin gave it to her mother, who doesn't know what to make of it either.So begins a letter to Franz Kafka written in 1917 by Dr Siegfried Wolff, a veteran of the trenches. He goes on to list other family members equally perplexed by the story and pleads for some help to protect his reputation: "Only you can help me". Apparently there is no evidence of a reply. Not that possession would help much: perplexity towards Kafka's fiction hasn't ceased despite the deluge of secondary material. Sometimes it is expressed with Wolff's politeness, sometimes with a journalist's boorish impatience. "Great antipathy towards Metamorphosis", was Kafka's own response. "Unreadable ending. Imperfect almost to its very marrow".
Starting a fight club with dementia patients and filming it.
The politics of bread. From the Roman cry of “bread and circuses” to the suffragettes’ “bread and roses,” flour has had a highly political role in history
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Billionaire George Soros says Elizabeth Warren ‘is the most qualified to be president’ CNBC
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Instead of visiting bbc.co.uk/news or bbc.com/news, users of the Tor browser can visit the new bbcnewsv2vjtpsuy.onion web address. Clicking this web address will not work in a regular web browser. The dark web copy of the BBC News website will be the international edition, as seen from outside the UK. It will include foreign language services such as BBC Persian, BBC Arabic and BBC Russian…”