Sexta-feira, Julho 25, 2008

Course of Conduct

ULTIMATE day of work. last night we were wallowing in mire and Duylinh's new coworker said that he was surprised that we were so unconcerned about having to have the whole house packed up and cleaned within three days. i decided that i should become anxious. i announced that i was going to buy a bottle of beer for myself. in a brown paper bag. with a little help from craigslist and some gentle urges to pretenders to the furniture, we got everything cleared out and found that there was no place to sit. that's OK.

two of my students came to present me with a bag of sunchips as a farewell gift.

dixit Ben Franklin:

In the Conduct of my Newspaper I carefully excluded all Libelling and Personal Abuse, which is of late Years become so disgraceful to our Country. Whenever I was solicited to insert any thing of that kind, and the Writers pleaded as they generally did, the Liberty of the Press, and that a Newspaper was like a Stage Coach in which any one who would pay had a Right to a Place, my Answer was, that I would print the Piece separately if desired, and the Author might have as many Copies as he pleased to distribute himself, but that I would not take upon me to spread his Detraction, and that having contracted with my Subscribers to furnish them with what might be either useful or entertaining, I could not fill their Papers with private Altercation in which tey had no Concern without doing them manifest Injustice.