I may have accidentally reblogged some Wednesday spoilers without tagging them today.

adverse weather

A ballet visibly stresses the performant function even though, traditionally, it also claims to communicate some meaning. In sports, the performant function dominates more openly; but, in a symbiotic relation, it derives much of its vitality from a grafted referential function that operates through cultural signs. … As a rule, however, the performant function, when it is supported by truly impressive circus performances, tends to monopolize the audience's attention.

There is nothing so fretting and vexatious, nothing so justly TERRIBLE to tyrants, and their tools and abettors, as a FREE PRESS.