Welcome aboard, gee, it's a fabulous or-gy
That you just dropped in on, my friend--
We can't recall just how it start-ted,
But there's only one way it can end!
The behaviour is bestial, hardly Marie-Celestial,
But you'll fit right in with the crowd,
If you jettison all of those prob-lems,
And keep it hysterically loud!

fallensparks' Person of the Year 2007 - Norman Gary Finkelstein

• "He's poison, he's a disgusting self-hating Jew, he's something you find under a rock." - Leon Wieseltier

• "I would say that his place in the whole history of writing history is assured, and that those who in the end are proven right triumph, and he will be among those who will have triumphed, albeit, it so seems, at great cost." - Raul Hilberg

• "Many people think he is... sick." - Alan Dershowitz

• "I warned him, if you follow this, you're going to get in trouble--because you're going to expose the American intellectual community as a gang of frauds, and they are not going to like it, and they're going to destroy you." - Noam Chomsky

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Finkelstein talks with former Israeli Foreign Minister Shlomo Ben Ami (video/transcript)

I thoroughly disapprove of duels. I consider them unwise and I know they are dangerous. Also, sinful. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet retired spot and kill him.

Mark Twain

Bring out the violin.

"Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man."

Francis Bacon

e2 needs more stuff like this

With me, travelling is frankly a vice. The temptation to indulge in it is one which I find almost as hard to resist as the temptation to read promiscuously, omnivorously and without purpose. From time to time, it is true, I make a desperate resolution to mend my ways. I sketch out programmes of useful, serious reading; I try to turn my rambling voyages into systematic tours through the history of art and civilization. But without much success. After a little I relapse into my old bad ways. Deplorable weakness! I try to comfort myself with the hope that even my vices may be of some profit to me.