There is power in being a wronged party. It is especially potent when the person who does you harm feels badly about it-the apology, maybe even tears-it makes the pain that much more delicious. The sinking heart leaps to high moral ground like a ram on a mountantop. Anger is mitigated by that secret 'I'm right and you're wrong' tapdance. Righteous ( Read more... )

Fashion designer Vivienne Westwood, who had a son with Malcolm McClaren in the 1970s, just said that she created the Anarchy symbol. I find this hilarious. She also said something interesting which I shall try to paraphrase: she used to think it was possible to beat the Establishment. She now realizes there is no Establisment as a unit, and the ( Read more... )

In a conversation just now, someone used the term 'politically correct' when he clearly meant 'polite ( Read more... )