Two quick links

[conuly]

One on some conservative site's idea of the ten most dangerous books of the 19th and 20th centuries. Mein Kampf is kinda expected, but otherwise....

And one on the quest for low-fat, low-salt cheese. Funnily enough, when you take the fat and salt away from curdled rotten milk solids, what's left isn't all that appealing.

Comments

[redbird]

Someone who still gets exercised over Comte's positivism? (I am unsurprised by Das Kapital and the Communist Manifesto, only a little startled by Mao's Little Red Book being there.)

[conuly]

Why surprised by Mao? I was surprised it wasn't higher, honestly, as it has a catchy nickname.

[redbird]

A vague feeling that it was less influential in the west, and that they're thinking in terms of what was dangerous to "western civilization" or the like.

[mc776]

I'd rank the LRB as one of the most negatively influential books ever, except that it was only a small part of something significantly greater and the harm was inflicted not at all on America and completely on China.

...and by "harm" I mean eventually turning it into the exact sort of nation-state the Republicans openly and eagerly want to turn America into now.

[catsidhe.livejournal.com]

I had some things to say about the List at the time. (http://catsidhe.livejournal.com/26526.html)