February 2011
7 posts
“She threatened to ‘Whitechapel’ him. The prosecutrix interefered,...”
– Fascinating post at Cat’s Meat Shop about false Jack The Rippers (falsely accused men, those claiming to be him, etc) in nineteenth-century London, including this passage about a female prisoner using the terminology of Jack the Ripper as a threat.
January 2011
37 posts
“Thanks to its ongoing relationship with a disabled gamer, Sony San Diego has...”
– MLB 11 The Show has one-button controls for the disabled.
“About the only thing that prevents some men from telling bare-faced lies is a...”
– An 1895 joke, found at a compendium of Victorian jokes at The Cat’s Meat Shop: Joking Aside.
“There are different degrees of coercion. While involuntary commitment is the...”
– The Conversations We Should (and Shouldn’t) Be Having, at Cat in a Dog’s World. A thoughtful response to the common call for more surveillance and more institutionalized response in the wake of the Tucson shootings. Well worth reading in its entirety.
