Status Updates From Payback: Why We Retaliate, ...

I'm going to finish reading this book....by December.

The nineteenth-century American transcendentalist Margaret Fuller once famously announced, "I accept the universe," to which the Scottish historian Thomas Carlyle is reputed to have observed, "Gad, she'd better!"

In any event, low-ranking individuals often flee the scene of a violent conflict: not only because, as the African saying goes, "when elephants fight, the grass gets trampled," but also because a losing elephant may actually go out of his way to stomp on the nearest patch of grass.

Thirty pages of explaining what scape-goating means.