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Stop the insanity! says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle ending his tenure reporting from Washington. In always-on America "24/7 is a shorthand way of describing a living hell" Clearly, he's never craved Starbucks at 3am.

One critic''s retort to BJ Myers' essay "A Reader's Manifesto" pegs his complaint on the author's "grousing about the worthless dilettantes passing themselves off as writers these days." Ahem.

Fresh on the heels of digittante's own encounter with Nigerian 419 email fraud, Salon offers up a critical analysis of their literary merit, "which lends credence to my humble belief" you'll enjoy it.

Spanish architect (and vegetarian) Antoni Gaudi insisted that "chickens and turkeys were chloroformed, greased and quickly cast in plaster before coming around again" when he created the facade of Sagrada Familia.