Why I love reading blogs

Because sometimes you get sentences like this one, from I Don’t Like You In That Way… On Angelina Jolie’s adopted baby: At some point, sex with Angelina Jolie – I don’t care what she’ll let you do to her – just becomes more trouble than it’s worth.

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In Paris, one is always reminded of being a foreigner. If you park your car wrong, it is not the fact that it’s on the sidewalk that matters, but the fact that you speak with an accent. — Roman Polanski

Dear BBC

In the course of avoiding packing my suitcase in order to leave London in the morning, I was just watching your evening news broadcast. I’m offering my assistance in order to straighten out, as we Yanks say, your newscaster. He’s an awfully good-looking guy — you must know the one. I’m glad he’s so handsome Continue reading Dear BBC

Words of One Syllable Dept.

Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One’s Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments: In 1995, McArthur Wheeler walked into two Pittsburgh banks and robbed them in broad daylight, with no visible attempt at disguise. He was arrested later that night, less than an hour after videotapes of him taken from surveillance cameras Continue reading Words of One Syllable Dept.