Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes
- A Life Worth Ending (“Make no mistake, the purpose of long-term-care insurance is to help finance some of the greatest misery and suffering human beings have yet devised.”) (via)
Blog Headline of the Week
Bookish Linkage
- A Russian publisher has decided not to publish a translation of The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin’s Russia, which I reviewed in 2007, because of “a huge number of inaccuracies and factual errors” in the author’s translation of original Russian-language interviews into Englih. (via)
- Why marginalia?
- Are books becoming too long to read? (via)
- Ten epidemically overrated books
Nonbookish Linkage
- Do you have answer syndrome?
- Florida judge says flashing lights to warn other drivers of a speed trap is protected by the First Amendment.
Procrastination is the soul rebelling against entrapment.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes
I couldn’t read all of A Life Worth Ending. Too painful. I am 59 and neither of my deceased parents ever set foot in a nursing home as residents. I am very grateful for that. One died at 70, the other at 82. I am all for euthanasia. I hope to off myself before I become too far gone, if it comes to that.
I liked the 10 Books post, and I do know people afflicted with Answer Syndrome. Sometimes, egad, I have been one!