Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes
- Cannonball (“Mary’s Christmas present had been a trip to a famous Bay Area clinic where world-renowned doctors take pictures of people’s brains, and then tell them, very nicely, how fucked-up they are.”)
- How the NRA Rewrote the Second Amendment (“From 1888, when law review articles first were indexed, through 1959, every single one on the Second Amendment concluded it did not guarantee an individual right to a gun. The first to argue otherwise … appeared in 1960 [and] began by citing an article in the NRA’s American Rifleman magazine[.]”)
- There is no catastrophe so ghastly that America will reform its gun laws (“Look, we’ve collectively decided, as a country, that the occasional massacre is okay with us. It’s the price we’re willing to pay for our precious Second Amendment freedoms. We’re content to forfeit the lives of a few dozen schoolkids a year as long as we get to keep our guns.”)
Lawsuit of the Week
- An Indian court has been asked to determine whether a Hindu guru is dead or just meditating
Most Obvious Research Result of the Week
- Books in the home have a strong influence on academic performance
Bookish Linkage
- Becoming a book quitter
- The lifecycle of a book in translation
- A lot of these “confessions” are simply facts of my life
- Bookish Lists: 7 ways to read more; best books on North Korea (I’ve actually read half of them); 10 highbrow books for the summer; 3 of the best JFK biographies
Nonbookish Linkage
- Are we developing surveillant anxiety?
- The impact of the cost of legal services on the system
- Boy, am I in trouble
- A brief history of the toilet
- I can’t imagine why a toilet-themed restaurant would fail
I know that I am what I am. But I am not sure what I am.
Mason Cooley, City Aphorisms, Thirteenth Selection
