THE BLOG OF DISQUIET :Qweir Notions,an uncommonplace-book from the Armpit of Diogenes, binge-thinker jottings since2008.
Sunday, 29 January 2012
From this week's 'New Yorker' magazine
"Six million people are under correctional supervision in the U.S. —more than were in Stalin’s gulags." [People in the southern states see] "... the prison system as essentially a slave plantation continued by other means."
On a different tack altogether, the word 'Magazine' derives from the Arabic word for a storehouse, and first meant this in French and English. Then it meant a storehouse for arms. Then a shop (a storehouse for consumer goods) and finally a weekly, bimensual or monthly publication which was a storehouse of information or tittle-tattle.
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On a different tack altogether, the word 'Magazine' derives from the Arabic word for a storehouse, and first meant this in French and English. Then it meant a storehouse for arms. Then a shop (a storehouse for consumer goods) and finally a weekly, bimensual or monthly publication which was a storehouse of information or tittle-tattle.
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