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Blog Headline of the Week Batman Says He Wasn’t Robbin’ Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes Too Terrible To Be True? (Here’s the magazine article that sparked the linked article.) (Via.) The Double-Edged Sword of Online Free Speech A short history of radio messages to ET Bookish Linkage Two English professors conclude that […] There’s a couple reasons American History X makes my favorite movies list. One is simply that it’s a compelling look at a disturbing topic — neo-Nazism among young American men. Another is that it was a major step in Edward Norton becoming one of my favorite actors. At first, you may not think this is […] Who’s your favorite author that other people are NOT reading? The one you want to evangelize for, the one you would run popularity campaigns for? The author that, so far as you’re concerned, everyone should be reading–but that nobody seems to have heard of. You know, not JK Rowling, not Jane Austen, not Hemingway–everybody’s […] Microreview: The Kindly Ones by Jonathan LittellA 975-page novel probably isn’t the best for the first “microreview,” especially one as widely praised and condemned as Jonathan Littell’s The Kindly Ones. The book won two of France’s highest literary awards before being translated into English — although it is written by an American. It is the fictional, but exceptionally well researched, memoir […] Euphemisms abound in modern America and consumer advertising seems to love them. One I saw in Sunday’s Best Buy ad, though, took me beyond a double take and left me pondering our views of privacy and parent-child trust. The ad was for the “LittleBuddy Child Tracker.” To me, it could just as well be called […] |
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