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Monday, 25 March 2013

The Twitter Feeds of Justice

Posted on 17:42 by Unknown
The great, corrosive temptation: mistaking the extremity of your idiom with the power of your utterance. Or, worse, to mistake your personal purity as something that could make a difference for anyone at all.

Update: (yes this is self-implicature)
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