Collector Catastrophe

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The perils of an overweening love for the printed word.

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Brian Doherty is a senior editor at Reason and author of Ron Paul's Revolution: The Man and the Movement He Inspired (Broadside Books).

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  1. Trey
    December.30.2003 at 3:45 am

    This very thing happened to principal Skinner.

    http://www.snpp.com/episodes/8F03.html

    He went home and began bundling his old newspapers, but the stack fell on him. (“Let this be a lesson to recycle regularly.”) Trapped until the pile of papers, he survived the week by eating his mother’s preserves and preserved his sanity by dribbling a basketball that was barely within reach of his one free hand. (“I made a game of it. Seeing how many times I could bounce the ball in a day, then trying to break that record.”)

  2. rts
    December.30.2003 at 3:52 am

    Fat Tony unavailable for comment.

  3. Steve in CO
    December.30.2003 at 3:56 am

    Ha, ha … (Nelson) … love that troubled kid.

    :0)

  4. Kevin
    December.30.2003 at 5:12 am

    What have I done to deserve such a flat, flavorless Manhattan?

    It would have been wrong to stop a perfectly good Simpsons thread.

  5. Cecile
    December.30.2003 at 8:14 am

    That reminds me of Matt Labash’s latest in the Weekly Standard.
    At least the man has one resolution for next year!

  6. AJMB, no longer able to use no
    December.30.2003 at 10:28 am

    Note to self: Do NOT kepp old issues of Reason when subscription commences.

  7. AJMB, no longer able to use no
    December.30.2003 at 10:29 am

    Further note to self: PREVIEW, dammit!

  8. yelowd
    December.30.2003 at 10:35 am

    ajmb, to what ip rights are you refering?

  9. AJMB
    December.30.2003 at 10:50 am

    Just a gag, yelowd. nW was a reaction to Jean Bart’s use of the merovingian pseudonym. Frankly, I just got bored with it. Knowing what a hot button IP is round these parts, I thought this an amusing way of divesting myself of it.

  10. yelowd
    December.30.2003 at 11:35 am

    glad to know I took the bait.

  11. AJMB
    December.30.2003 at 11:44 am

    No egg intended. Have a Happy New Year

  12. Ron Hardin
    December.31.2003 at 8:37 am

    That’s a misuse of “overweening.” Not just anybody can be Buckley. Try to emulate, eg.,

    “…there are those who already have warned that distinctions will need to be made if the absolute law is passed, and that those distinctions might then be overweening. For example, who exactly is and who isn’t a newspaperman, or a reporter, or a free-lance television or radio consultant?” WFB _Execution Eve_

    “Overweening” comes from “ween” to think, suppose; you’re relying on “over” to do all the work. That’s only an intensifier.

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