Undaunted, Ferguson enlisted the opinion of Henry...

About the author

Ming: Klytus, I'm bored. What plaything can you offer me today?
Klytus: An obscure body in the S-K system. The inhabitants refer to it as the planet...Earth.
Ming: How peaceful it looks...[Causes an earthquake.]
Klytus: Most effective, Your Majesty. Will you destroy this...ah...Earth?
Ming: Later. I like to play with things a while, before annihilation. - Flash Gordon (1980)

Elsewhere

The Phantom City twitter/shanethacker google/shanethacker

Undaunted, Ferguson enlisted the opinion of Henry Louis Gates Jr, one of America’s leading African-American scholars, who handed down the verdict that referring to Felix as black wasn’t racist, on the grounds that he really did have black fur, and, anyway, it wasn’t clear that cats had race.

Professor Paul Krugman at war with Niall Ferguson over inflation - Times Online

phantom-thought

About the author

Elsewhere

Undaunted, Ferguson enlisted the opinion of Henry Louis Gates Jr, one of America’s leading African-American scholars, who handed down the verdict that referring to Felix as black wasn’t racist, on the grounds that he really did have black fur, and, anyway, it wasn’t clear that cats had race.