Talk Like a Pseudo-Intellectual

For the past several years, I've been a regular reader of the web site AL Daily. It's a really interesting collection of articles from journals on a host of topics. If you'd like to be on top of current intellectual trends, but don't have the time to read the several dozen magazines required to do so, this is the place for you. Right now, there are articles on such things as :

Encyclopedia Britannica’s sales for its 32 volume set peaked in 1990. Today, paper encyclopedias are in deep trouble...

The current employment rate is 95.3%. Better still, out of 300 million Americans, roughly 299.999954 million were not murdered today. But if you just watch TV...

The 40,000 Chinese restaurants in the U.S. come to more than the number of Burger Kings, McDonald’s, and KFCs combined...

Golf in decline: the number of people who play the game 25 times a year or more fell to 4.6 million in 2005 from 6.9 million in 2000...

Lawrence of Arabia’s story looks today less like a chivalric romance than like a case of imperial arrogance run amok...

The Space Age began with the launch of the Soviet Sputnik on October 4, 1957. From that day, no one could think of earth, or of space, in the same way...

The arts build the sets for that interior theatre of the mind and fill the stage with vivid characters who mingle in memory with the people of our lives...