Bulletin Board
- There’s another addition to the Curmudgeon’s Gallery
Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes
- The Trip Treatment (“…cancer patients receiving just a single dose of psilocybin experienced immediate and dramatic reductions in anxiety and depression, improvements that were sustained for at least six months.”)
- What Really Happened to Baby Johan? (“In the context of a brain-injured infant, the word ‘shake’ has totemic meaning. To many parents and caregivers, it evokes a modern-day version of the Salem witch trials, a trumped-up charge, a specious crime.”)
Bookish Linkage
- To Shill A Mockingbird
- The chicken or the egg of Americans and foreign fiction
- “The books did not suffer.”
- Prolific author explains “hard” SF
- Oxford University Press is starting an online World’s Classics Reading Group with Wuthering Heights
- Bookish Lists: 7 literary one-hit wonders; 2014’s most searched for out-of-print books; 50 best cult books; 10 indie bookstores in the Twin Cities; 5 reasons people love apocalyptic fiction; 17 ways a love of books gets out of control (I’m guilty of most, particularly 8 and 13)
Nonbookish Linkage
- Why antiwar movements have disappeared in America
- There’s an active market for “murderabilia“
- The history and meaning of “slut“
- Why we remain obsessed with the Nazis
- Legal aromatherapy
Intelligence makes sincerity difficult.
Mason Cooley, City Aphorisms, Ninth Selection
