The NYT's David Brooks says in our era, the aggregators and appraisers of culture have more status than the creators.

The Globe and Mail's Patricia Best on why former Hollinger executive David Radler still languishes in a south-of-the-49th-Parallel jail instead of a Canadian one.  She found the answer in Britain's The Evening Standard newspaper. The key word? Co-operation.

Apparently my accent still marks me as a Westerner. The shame is mine.

Name the film:

"Where life had no value, death, sometimes, had its price.

"That is why the bounty hunters appeared."

Addendum

Fine, you lazy bastards: Let me do it for you.

Those words opened Sergio Leone's For A Few Dollars More, one of the great sphagetti westerns starring Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef and Gian Maria Volonte as one badass bad guy! ... er, not that there's any really good guys in this flick. :)

Here's the Wikipedia article (spoiler alert).