Next Day Courier method is a next working day service that is available to orders placed before 2pm on a working day.Orders placed before the 2pm cut-off time on a Friday will be delivered the next working day. We do not currently offer a weekend delivery service.Standard Shipping method normally takes 3-4 working days to a UK address.Orders placed over a weekend will be shipped the next working day. Orders placed before 2pm, Monday to Friday are shipped on the same day. If you paid using a Paypal instant payment or via our card processing gateway and your card payment was authorised then your order will show as Processed. If you have paid via cheque or Paypal eCheque (similar to traditional paper cheques) your order will show as Queued until your cheque has cleared. I have posted two podcasts of critical reader mail at /living, and plan to record more in the future.We aim to get your order to you as fast as possible! Once you have paid for your order you will receive a confirmation email showing the order’s status. Here's the best part: Evil got its kicked! Good blew it away. Why do I need so much Hitler? It's easy: It's all about good versus evil. So I'm thankful for the Military Channel. Is that the same thing?Īn e-mail with the irresistible subject line "More Hitler Please" objected to my dismissal of the History Channel as "all Hitler all the time." "Actually," wrote Alan Nadel of Winchester, "the History Channel doesn't come close to supplying all my Hitler needs. Thanks." I am not a vegetarian, but I admire Prince Charles. Some mail is purely informational, like this missive I received in May: "I know you are a vegetarian and wonder if you could tell my wife and me about vegetarian restaurants in the Boston area. I didn't know there was a contest, but it feels good to be a winner. "YOU WIN BOLSHEVIK OF THE DAY AT THE GLOBE!! " Steven Carter wrote me after a column about beach restoration. There's not a guy hanging off of the back of a city trash truck that doesn't share your architectural analysis." "You are welcome to your opinion but it is an ill formed one and hidebound and backward." Chris Kent of Rye, N.H., piled on: "One immediate intellectual problem with not liking the way looks is that the clearly uneducated always agree, a sort of support stuck to the bottom of your shoe. "You are wrong, of course, about City Hall," Peter Romanow wrote. Serious people objected, as I knew they would, to my insistence that we tear down the eyesore that is City Hall. A few weeks later, I e-mailed him our front-page report on Boston police officer Terrence Burke's return from Iraq, "Hub Officer Gets a Hero's Welcome Home." Mr. "Thanks once again for keeping alive the anti-police sentiment that permeates the Globe," he wrote. I did earn one canceled subscription last year, from former reader Philip Tansey, who took offense at a crack I made linking policemen and doughnuts. Eliot on 'Hamlet'? You haven't lived until you've read Eliot on Hamlet!!!' " "I won't have someone insinuate he is assigning TV shows to watch instead of berating a class, as I heard him do once, by saying, 'You haven't read T.S. Responding to the same column, Thomas Arnold defended Cornel West, one of his favorite professors at Harvard. "It's not one or the other, Alex, it's how they interrogate one another, rub off against each other," Silverman concluded. John's College and the hip-hop jibber-jabber valorized at Princeton, Stanford, Harvard, and elsewhere. Silverman proceeded to attack what he viewed as my false dichotomy between the "high" culture taught at a classics-oriented school like St. First ob all, let's drop da Ali G, we both be white guys over 40, ya dig." I think: "Yo Al lex, here be da word from Beige (we still be'nt Brown enuff, ya dig) on dat Heidegger. He, like many others, objected to my trashing hip-hop research at major universities. My favorite piece of incoming mail that could not be recycled into carpet tile came from Brown University professor Michael Silverman. Maybe I will someday walk the carpet crafted from my own Christmas cards. This is certainly the kind of EC (Environmentally Correct) frippery I would cruelly mock, if I didn't own a shaving kit "hand-made from an actual highway billboard," or a shirt fashioned from 35 percent recycled bottle plastic. A spokeswoman for manufacturer Cradle to Cradle said their cards were printed on a plastic called SynCarta, and she has no idea how many were actually returned to Cartersville, Ga., for recycling. Yes, this was John Kerry and Teresa Heinz's holiday card, mailed to 60,000 of their closest friends. Remaking the world, one carpet tile at a time. so it can be made into a new carpet tile." How wonderful, I thought. On the back, it read: "Please use the resealable postage paid envelope to return this card. It was a holiday card that came with a Netflix-like return envelope. The oddest piece of mail I received all year arrived about 10 days ago.
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