Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubez
- All the President’s Lawyers (“For all the uncertainty about what a Trump presidency would bring, one thing should have been clear from the start: It was going to involve a lot of lawyers.”)
- We Don’t Need No Education (“The notion that there was a golden age of conservative intellectuals is basically a myth. But there used to be at least some pretense of taking facts and hard thinking seriously.”)
Unique Government Crisis of the Week
- Nevada has declared an emergency because its legal pot dispensaries are running out of weed
Blog Headline of the Week
Bookish Linkage
- Why demagogues despise books and fear a reading public
- “Convent exposés” were extremely popular in antebellum America
- Trump inspires surge in book clubs
- James Grippando won the 2017 Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction award for Gone Again
- Bookish Lists: this year’s Russian-to-English translations; 15 classic novels under 200 pages;best reviewed books of the year so far; 8 literary hiking trails
Nonbookish Linkage
- It won’t fund space exploration but, of course, Congress thinks we need a new military branch, the United States Space Corps
- Poverty adversely affects children’s brain structure
- This is why I don’t have Alexa or a similar device
- Worshipping the American flag
- Why scientists didn’t figure out where babies come from until the 19th century
- 10 most brutal medieval deaths
- OMNI magazine is returning in print form in October
I’m someone who’s supposed to be me.
Don DeLillo, Zero K
