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July 2011

How Can You Tell Whether They’re Ripe?

Yes, it’s a real label. No, I don’t care to comment.

Still waters run deep…

…but a babbling brook is shallow. As a card-carrying introvert, I applaud Jonathan Rauch’s article on our proper care and + more

And the Winner Is…

Sue Fondrie, associate professor of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, is the winner of the 2011 + more

David Puts the Smacketh Down

On a mission to create original designs for all 66 books of the Bible, Jim LePage has so far “summarized + more

Jimpressions!

Because it’s Friday and I have far, far too much to do than post the usual brilliant and insightful commentary, + more

Americanisms

Writing in BBC News Magazine, Matthew Engel worries that American idioms are ruining the Mother Tongue. He must’ve touched a + more

Movie Review

This will likely be the lamest movie review anyone’s ever written—or read, for that matter. But I’m giving it a + more

Business Beat

This just in: Borders is on the verge of closing all 399 of its stores. From the short article: “In + more

Brilliantly Creative or Gratuitously Offensive?

Depends on whether you have a Y chromosome, apparently. More here.

Happy Bastille Day!

We’re not exactly Francophiles here at the last word, preferring Philip Roth over Michel Houellebecq, Leszek Kolakowski over Jacques Derrida, + more

The Brits Surrender

If you’re not outraged, you haven’t seen this—in which we read that, in yet another step on the long march + more

Nixon Now!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kniMjb–Ids&feature=youtu.be But wait—there’s more…

Fluid Dynamics, Fractal Geometry, and the Art of Jackson Pollock

If you thought Jackson Pollock’s painting technique was simply a matter of him “wiggling his hand in a sinusoidal way,” + more

Fun with Sterotypes

It’s hard to look at this without remembering John Derbyshire’s observation that “stereotypes are, in fact, merely one aspect of + more

The word of the day? Degree. D-E-G-R-E-E.

If you’re looking for a job, EWU has an opening for a GetLit! Festival Program Coordinator. You’ll need a bachelor’s + more

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