- Dodgy accounting extends to "self-sufficient" athletic departments, which leads to yet another question regarding college athletics: Particularly for public universities, are they paying a minimum wage? Contrast this objectively verifiable problem with Illinois's right wing papers' continuing bleating concerning the U of I's purported "clout list" and corresponding silence on athletic admissions, while penny-pinching threatens university presses.
- There's very little wry humor anywhere near the Salinger lawsuit. As I've remarked before, The Catcher in the Rye is virtually a self-parody to begin with — something that was apparent to me as a high-school sophomore more years ago than I care to admit. It's really not a very good idea to then file for an injunction against publication of a parody of that self-parody, particularly since the standard for granting the injunction includes proving "irreparable harm"... but then, Holden Caulfield is a self-parodying example of 1950s intellectual dishonesty, so I shouldn't be surprised that his creator (or his creator's lawyers) can't see that.
On the other hand, I suppose that beats yet another lawsuit accusing Joanne Rowling of being a plagiarist.
- Also from the department of unacknowledged self-parody, compare this review of a work on the global financial crisis with this breathless "exposé" of the publishing industry's misunderstanding of the concept of branding... but not before that first cup of coffee, please.
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