A Fresh Batch of Links
- Who Should Progressives Root for in the Super Bowl?
- The End of Solitude
- Michael Lewis Gets Honest on How his Eggers-produced Anthology "Panic" Came to Be
"Dave is a friend, and he has this philanthropy that is forever in need of dollars. And he came over here in early 2007 and we were having lunch. And he asked me if I would edit one of these anthologies for McSweeney's. And they've had some very distinguished people do them — you know, David Sedaris and Michael Chabon and so on. But they never sell. But there's an advance — you know, ten grand or twenty grand or whatever — and so we schemed. What could we throw out there that we could fool people into buying that would actually generate real dollars? And so we weren't thinking, Oh, there's going to be a financial panic and this would be really good for that. Remember, this was February 2007 and we were just thinking, What could we fool people into buying?" - Unsavory Snacks — Science Progress
What to make of the peanut butter recall. Kicker: "The current system is nuts." - Mumbai slum residents object to 'Slumdog's' name
"I just made up the word. I liked the idea. I didn't mean to offend anyone." Aye. Generally calling folks "dogs" is ill advised. - From a Portuguese Marsh, Salt, the Traditional Way – NYTimes.com
“What we are selling is ocean saltwater without the water. Call it sea dust.”
