Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes
- Why I Make Terrible Decisions, or, poverty thoughts (“We know that the very act of being poor guarantees that we will never not be poor.”)
- The FBI files on being and nothingness (“Hoover needed to know if Existentialism and Absurdism were some kind of front for Communism.”)
Blog Headline of the Week
Batshit Craziness of the Week
- A Tampa man was convicted of felony animal cruelty this week for killing and eating his dog (although the jury didn’t know about him dining on the animal)
Bookish Linkage
- How to weed your library
- Why the best self-help books are the worst gifts
- “Serious fiction” is psychologically good for you
- Six ways to deal with “reader’s block“
- Here’s a high standard: ” I will keep reading only if a book is so great that I CAN’T put it down.”
- People love time travel books because it’s impossible
Nonbookish Linkage
- The American health care system’s lousy cost-benefit ratio
- If you’re not completely sick of the JFK assassination already, here’s some of the wildest conspiracy theories — although a few of these may be even wilder — or these
If you have enough book space, I don’t want to talk to you.
Terry Pratchett
