Backblogged: Our Five Favorite Sentences of the Week: The New Yorker It's one thing to make forgiveness an element of a humanitarian movement; it's quite another to enact it as public policy. From "Mandela and the Politics of Forgiveness," by Jelani Cobb. Hating Congress is one of the few things we still do together, as one America, now that we no longer watch the same TV shows at the same time.  From "The Court's Contempt for Congress," by Jeff Shesol. "If I have but one rule, it's that critics shouldn't opine on subjects they know nothing about, or use the word "opine." " From "I Really Do Hate Top-Ten Lists," by Emily Nussbaum. He felt an oddly intuitive understanding, for not having a brain put him at a great advantage in the world of branding. From the humor article "#Oz," by Ethan Kuperberg. This is what writers do - we keep each other warm during periods of solitude when we are writing. From "Street of the Iron Po (e) t, Part IX," by Henri Cole.