Sublime

“So should we define him by his psychopathy or by his sanity?” I said. “Well, the people who say that kind of thing,” Bob said, “and I don’t use this in a pejorative way, are very left-wing, left-leaning academics. Who don’t like labels. Who don’t like talking about differences between people.”

For Lehman’s treatment of Moses after the campaign was the definitive word on the Governor’s character.

It is always painful for me, as it is for most prison chaplains, to see a man or a woman attacked so directly in the courtroom, all in an effort to pile as many collateral accusations on the defendant as possible, the implication being that he or she is intrinsically evil. It is difficult because we have come to know and love the person, perhaps ha

“illusion of rationality.”

Cruelty, she says, is often way out of proportion to the behavior that prompted it.

that the role of culture is variable, not constant.

Greil Marcus’s Mystery Train

Keyser Söze

Molly Allen, fearless as ever.