Bulletin Board
- There’s been a couple additions to the Curmudgeon’s Gallery
Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubez
- How America Lost Its Mind (“We have passed through the looking glass and down the rabbit hole. America has mutated into Fantasyland.”)
- W.W.E. the People (“Trump didn’t create the problem — he exploited it.”)
Blog Headline of the Week
- David Avacado Wolfe is the Biggest Asshole in the Multiverse (I admit having no clue who he is.)
Bookish Linkage
- The last 50 years have seen a steady increase in books using the “seven words you can never say on television“
- The rise of Scandinavian crime fiction
- The Obelisk Gate by N. K. Jemisin won the 2017 Hugo Award for Best Novel. Given that her first book in the trilogy, The Fifth Season, won the award last year, I probably need to get around to reading them
- In San Francisco you can now buy short stories from a vending machine
- Am I the only one who finds it boring that there’s been a boom in books about boredom?
- Bookish Lists: 5 books to prep for the upcoming eclipse; 100 great works of dystopian fiction (I’ve read 29 but you’ll be surprised by some of the items on the list)
Nonbookish Linkage
- South Dakota spent $260,000 of taxpayer money to subsidize 41 Christian schools
- Why do evangelical Christians support Trump?
- How the war on terror affects your online privacy
- The solar eclipse as a dark omen
- Should we stop saying “commit” suicide?
- Although I assumed the lack of laborsaving devices would suffice, there were medieval fitness tips
- A photographic retrospective on the Voyager spacecraft launched 40 years ago this month — and keep going and going
We’re all fucked. It helps to remember that.
George Carlin, Brain Droppings
