Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubez
- Why we should defend the right to be offensive (“Free speech is not the cause of the tensions that are growing around us, but the only possible solution to them.”)
- Everything Is Meaningless – But That’s Okay (“The great experiment of our age – living without Grand Schemes – consists in recognizing that we don’t need meaning in order to find value.”)
Crime of the Week
- A Minnesota woman faces charges after sending a note to her neighbor saying she wanted to “taste” their children
Asshole of the Week Year
- This asshat is undoubtedly leading the most despised list among hockey (and non-hopckey) fans
Irony of the Week
- There’s an admission fee to visit Karl Marx’s grave
Bookish Linkage
- For nearly 30 years, a travel guide was published annually in the U.S. to enable African-Americans to “vacation without aggravation“
- Ownership of e-book readers has dropped dramatically
- Surrender, Readers!
- Bookish Lists: the best books of the year onslaught begins; 50 ways to find new books to read; 11 books to introduce you to Hinduism
Nonbookish Linkage
- The threat of faith derangement syndrome
- Working before 10 a.m. is the equivalent of torture
- The ongoing ramifications of overthrowing Saddam Hussein
- The science of creepy
- Studies suggest intelligent people tend to stay up later, do more drugs and have more sex
- Now this is my kind of desk
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
