Jamesian Philosophy Refreshed

According to the FBI, as mediated by Vanity Fair , accused inside-info trader Jesse Tortora e-mailed the following to his buddies and co-conspirators: "Rule number one about email list. There is no email list, fight club reference." Okay, here's a rule. If you have to explain that your previous sentence (or, strictly, the first half of the sentence you're still writing) was a Fight Club reference, don't. Delete, abort, retry. Especially since he didn't really get the allusion right, anyway.

A week ago I quoted for you from a biography of Rupert Murdoch, written by Michael Wolff, the well known Vanity Fair columnist. I there cited in particular Wolff's discussion of the succession issue, and of the rather odd way in which Murdoch announced his resolution thereof. But never mind that. Here's a better quote, from much later in the book (which is not at all chronological). "In steady, constantly discomfiting ways, Murdoch shares the feelings about Fox News regularly reflected in the general liberal apoplexy. Everybody outside Fox News and inside News Corp. suffers Fox News. Everybody outside Fox News and inside News Corp is afraid of Roger Ailes,. Further, everybody outside Fox News and inside News Corp. thinks that there's a bit of insanity at Fox News."