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...somewhere else quick. When the wrong turns of Dave's life - the bad marriage, the strange and estranged son, the failed hair transplant - start piling up, the Knowledge can do nothing to keep his wheels on the road. Descending into insanity, Dave empties all his warped, dyspeptic rage into a hate-filled memoir that he buries in his ex-wife's garden. Several centuries on, after a great flood has reduced England to an archipelago and returned society to a pretaxi - indeed, premedieval - state, Dave's book is unearthed and becomes a kind of New Knowledge, the founding text...
...Game and fish eluded them, and they were reduced to searching, often in vain, for Brazil nuts, hearts of palm and the sweet, white sap of milk trees. One of the porters, roundly despised for his laziness and violent temper, had begun to steal food. Out of desperation and rage, he eventually murdered another man on the expedition...
...number of the farm's lawyers on their arms, and are ready to resist eviction by the sheriff's office, which conducts nightly reconnaissance in circling helicopters. Farmers cook dinner for the protestors, massagers massage them and famous people play music for them - tonight it's the guy from Rage Against the Machine, shiatsu and some delicious homemade soy-milk hot chocolate. During the day, there are pop-ins from celebrities such as Leonardo DiCaprio, Willie Nelson, Martin Sheen, Danny Glover, Laura Dern, Ben Harper, Ralph Nader and, proving that casting directors are underpaid, the mom from Dharma & Greg...
...past week, the Indian media have been playing up the Mahajan scandal as emblematic of a hidden hard drug scourge among India's elite. Expos?s detail how cocaine is purportedly all the rage among chic Delhi denizens, with posh South Delhi neighborhoods singled out as coke, acid, and ecstasy hotbeds. Journalists routinely quote anonymous socialites, designers, and models on the drug scene at clubs, raves, and even weddings. One paper went so far as to list Bollywood stars living in Bombay who are rumored to have hefty coke habits. A particularly juicy allegation making the rounds is that wealthy Indians...
...most interesting thing about Coulter is still the way people respond to her. There's a scene in a documentary about Coulter in which a young woman, sputtering with rage, gets in Coulter's face and shouts an obscenity with such force it was chilling, even on tape. Anyone who can inspire that kind of passion is surely worth writing about again...