Egypt was accused of making a savage assault on free speech on Sunday, after its cabinet drafted a law that criminalises the reporting of terrorism statistics that differ from those the government provides.
It's a slight piece but deftly handled all around, and it gently makes a savage point about academics who live only in their minds and not in the world.
When Stephen Fry made a savage but eloquent attack on religion last year – explaining what he'd say to God at the pearly gates, referencing natural horrors he could not forgive – the internet went wild with approval.
The anti-hero is a brilliant but frustrated young Cambridge academic, Richard Fountain – of "Lancaster College" – who goes off on a research expedition to Greece and comes back strangely altered; so strangely that he makes a savage attack on his fiancee, and the daughter of his academic mentor.
"Better make a boy an outdoor savage than an indoor weakling," Camp wrote.
By sundown, Flosstradamus had summoned the Canadian portion of their HDY Nation with their track "Mosh Pit" making for a savage display of shuddering trap beats and hype man adrenaline.
Unlike Savage, Jeffrey does not make a distinction between the objects of instrumental and non-instrumental desire (acts and outcomes respectively) and the objects of belief (states of the world).
It's as though the terrorists have made a sudden and savage gash in the smooth, shiny surface of global capitalism and revealed, as in some medieval allegory, the satanic demons of Hatred, Discord and Despair.
"I'm aware of the concept," I said coolly, making a note to savage him on Yelp.
Savage makes a big deal out of how "unnatural" monogamy is for human beings (complete with references to the recent book "Sex at Dawn" and other arguments in that vein), and as I've said before I completely agree with him.
