I’m thinking about changing the name of this blog to “What he/she said” and just making it consist entirely of quotes. But then, perhaps that wouldn’t be much different than what I do now. It’s just that sometimes someone says it so well that it leaves little room for further comment from the likes of me. So, fresh from the RoveHive this morning, my bit of royal jelly tells me that you should read this delightful screed from Lileks.

Please get this straight: there are no marching orders. There is no RoveHive to which everyone buzzes in the morning for a scrap of Royal Jelly we carry off to our blogs. If there sometimes appears to be a unaniminity of subject matter, that’s because certain ideas appear, flower, bloom, take root, and spread. Like kudzu. But kudzu is not taking orders from some dark shrouded mastermind made entirely of cellulose and chlorophyll. If you honestly think that everyone to the right of Noam Chomsky is part of some dark soulless cabal dedicated to extirpating all photons and replacing them with negative matter that strips the flesh from the bones of the poor, I envy you; the world must make perfect sense.

And that’s not even the best part (just the most quotable, short of the copying the entire thing).