Mar 1, 2005

Miscellany

Cuba Gooding Jr. as Hotspur, Bill Cosby as Falstaff ... the all-black complete works of Shakespeare.

No. VAT. Please! Daniel J. Mitchell of the Heritage foundation explains why a national sales tax is a very, very bad idea indeed.

Peter Mullen on growing older:
And you catch yourself making morbid calculations such as, how old was Beethoven when he died, then? And good grief, he was only fifty-seven! But Mozart dead at thirty-five. Schubert thirty-one. What have I ever done by comparison with them? Suddenly there is a senescent dawning of hope as you realise that Titian lived to be ninety-eight and when he was my age he had barely started. And Haydn wrote The Creation when he was well into his sixties. Even the old fraud and ladies' man Bertrand Russell lived to be ninety-seven.

Underwater bike riding and other crimes. Via Vodkapundit

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