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A local domestic casualty of the World War I draft

No one can guess what Melvin Lunda was thinking as he walked to work in downtown Sioux Falls on Thursday, June 20, 1918. Certainly, though, the 28-year-old couldn’t have imagined he would be a domestic fatality of World War I before the day ended. Lunda was what we now call collateral damage brought about by […]

Weekend Edition: 6-12

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubez

The Power of Restraint (“September 11 has become an anti-Fourth of July, commemorating the date after which a nation undeclared its union.”)

Blog Headline of the Week

Sub-literate congressman attempts to mock bestselling journalist, fails miserably

Nonbookish Linkage

When is it reasonable to choose ignorance? Fox News has blood […]

Waging legal war against search engines

Admit it. We’ve all done a vanity search. You know, when you type your name into a search engine and hit “Enter.” But, when Bev Stayart did, she didn’t like what turned up. So she sued?-?several times.

The Wisconsin woman filed her first lawsuit in federal court in 2009. Stayart alleged the search results for […]

Weekend Edition: 6-5

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubez

The Tyranny Of Time (“The clock, they say, does not measure time; it produces it.”)

Nonbookish Linkage

Gone just as quickly as it will be forgotten Seven states still (unconstitutionally) ban atheists from holding office Why Superman is better than Jesus “Infodemiologists” to battle scientific misinformation CSI’s tips to […]

Weekend Edition: 5-29

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubez

Cultures of Resentment among the Hitlerites and Trumpers (“Almost a century after Hitler came to power in 1933, some of Donald Trump’s followers remind us of Hitler’s crowds.”)

Nonbookish Linkage

In case you wondered, UFOs aren’t real Which news sources are the most objective? A map of the internet […]