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Weekend Edition: 3-21

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

In Defense of Difficulty (“A culture filled with smooth and familiar consumptions produces in people rigid mental habits and stultified conceptions. They know what they know, and they expect to find it reinforced when they turn a page or click on a screen.”)

In Defense of Boredom (“To […]

Weekend Edition: 3-14

Bulletin Board

There’s a new addition to the Curmudgeon’s Gallery

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

Please Be Disturbed: Triggering Can Be Good for You, Kids (“Brutalities cry for attention. Attention to the appalling causes disturbance. Deal with it. You’re at school to be disturbed. Universities are very much in the business of trying to […]

Weekend Edition: 3-7

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

The Plot to Free North Korea With Smuggled Episodes of ‘Friends’ (“When North Koreans watch Desperate Housewives, they see that Americans aren’t all war-loving imperialists.”)

Bookish Linkage

If you need an app to “sanitize” the books you read, I think you really need to meet reality

Penguin Books […]

I never knew I was in the militia

I recently read that many states have laws that automatically make virtually all men between certain ages part of that state’s “militia.” South Dakota is one of a number of states where the automatic membership arises from the state Constitution.

Article 15, § 1 of the Constitution says, “The militia of the state of South […]

Best of February 2015

Books

Hubert Wolf’s The Nuns of Sant’Ambrogio: The True Story of a Convent in Scandal epitomizes how history should be written for the general public. Although the PR around the book promises a look at “sex, poison, and lesbian initiation rites in a nineteenth-century convent,” this is in no way a lurid read. Sure, […]