Image above: One of 12 full-page engravings from The Anatomy of the Brain Explained in a Series of Engravings , by Charles Bell (1802). (via neurophilosophy .)
Also, everyone reading this blog should stop what they're doing right now and go listen to This American Life 's epic episode from Friday: Another Frightening Show About the Economy .
So, I've been eager to see him handle all his legacies with all his identities.
He had a habit of calling Jews “geese” because they, in his words, hiss when they talk, gulp down everything before them, and foul everything in their wake. (Diane McWhorter, “Revisiting the controversial career of Westbrook Pegler,” Slate, March 4 2004).
(...)In 1963, less than 3 months after Martin Luther King Jr., delivered his famous “I Have a Dream Speech,” he wrote in a column, “[It is] clearly the bounden duty of all intelligent Americans to proclaim and practice bigotry.” (D. Levitas, The Terrorist Next Door: The Militia Movement and the Radical Right, Macmillan, 2002, p. 71)
Update : Scott Beale has photos of the ongoing event .
