Stating The Obvious – 0088
When people write books about terrible tragedies of the past, they often say they’re doing it so it will never happen again. While reading the history of the gulag and the way the Soviets spread it to other countries, I thought, “I’m not writing this so it won’t happen again; I’m writing because it will.” The alacity with which other countries took up the ideas is remarkable. — Anna Applebaum author of Gulag: A History I upgraded Xorg to version 1.5 on my Gentoo Linux box and it took me 5 days to fix the fuck up. I had to … Continue reading →