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Shotgun incident shows life has changed

Although I grew up hunting, I don’t own a gun. In fact, unless you count the .22 rifle and 20-gauge shotgun I used as a teenager that were still in my dad’s gun cabinet when he died, I haven’t owned a gun for at least 30 years. That said, the news that a Washington High […]

December Bibliolust

At first, I thought I wouldn’t have a lust list this month. I believed, for some reason, that a lot of new stuff hadn’t really grabbed me lately but checking my library hold list and Amazon wish list proved me wrong — again. Here’s what I’m lusting after as the month kicks off:

Happy: A […]

Musing Mondays: Holiday reading

How does your reading (or your blogging) fare in the holiday months? Do you read more or less? Do you have to actively make time to read?

I generally get quite a bit of reading done over the holidays. During the Thanksgiving break, I finished a book I started earlier in the week, read […]

Weekend Edition: 11-28

Blog Headline of the Week

Cinema Is Doomed: New Moon Most Successful Opening Ever

Worthwhile Reading in the Interweb Tubes

How our brains learned to read

Come, Study, Learn, and Leave: Why Our Immigration Policy Fails To Attract And Keep The Best and the Brightest

Bookish Linkage

I agree that there’s enough bad writing […]

Friday Follies 1.22

A day late but here’s the top 10 reasons to be thankful there were no lawyers on The Mayflower.

Fondling breasts is outrageous conduct in prostitution investigations.

Earlier this month, Taiwan’s highest court ruled that a law penalizing prostitutes and not their clients is unconstitutional because it violates equal rights guaranteed under the Taiwainese Constitution. […]