Bulletin Board
- My recent interest in history related posts leads to me contributing to History of Yesterday, likely beginning next week
Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubez
- How Democrats Lost the Great Plains (“The story of Great Plains politics is about how a once independent region full of gracious people became so baptized into Republican orthodoxy that they’ve placed their hopes in fortunate sons and narcissistic TV stars.”)
Nonbookish Linkage
- Is Libertarianism bankrupt?
- Bring back the nervous breakdown
- A new image of the night sky shows more than a billion galaxies (zoom out in increments)
Bookish Linkage
- A guide to Africanfuturist science fiction
- You have a week to watch Literature Live Around the World, a virtual journey to 12 literary festivals
One of the symptoms of approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important[.]
Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
