Tim Wise on the Tea Partiers

And this, my friends, is what white privilege is all about. The ability to threaten others, to engage in violent and incendiary rhetoric without consequence, to be viewed as patriotic and normal no matter what you do, and never to be feared and despised as people of color would be, if they tried to get away with half the shit we do, on a daily basis.

From Metropolitan Life by Fran Leibowitz

"When it comes to sports I am not particularly interested. Generally speaking, I look upon them as dangerous and tiring activities performed by people with whom I share nothing except the right to trial by jury."

Book Review: After & Making Mistakes by Gabriel Josipovici

I reviewed this, with some missteps, for The Review of Contemporary Fiction