Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubez
- We need ecstasy and cocaine in place of Prozac and Xanax (“We’d rather stick to antidepressants of minimal therapeutic impact, not because they guard against addiction – they don’t – but because of a puritanical aversion to supplying unearned happiness and, along with it, a deep-seated belief that people who suffer emotionally should just get over it.”)
- What Has Become of American Healthcare? (“Even if Obamacare remains the law of the land there will still be millions uninsured, still many families that will face abject poverty and no medical care in a country where $1.5 trillion dollars can be spent on a plane that doesn’t fly.”)
Blog Headline of the Week
Practicing Law 101
- “Fucking bullshit” shouldn’t be uttered aloud when a judge overrules your objection
Bookish Linkage
- A fascinating infographic on global reading habits
- Baby boomer SF
- A brief introduction to Saudi literature
- Amazon has launched Amazon Charts, a list of its bestsellers and “most read,” based solely on a book’s average number of daily Kindle readers and daily Audible listeners
- Bookish Lists: 5 essential “best books” lists; top 10 novels about Pakistan; 10 best true crime books
Nonbookish Linkage
- Who knew the gay rights movement was a legacy of World War I?
- Reading American history as an act of resistance
- How to get impeached in the 14th century
- How coffee, tea and chocolate affected the ancient medical theory of humors
- Could public masturbation be protected speech?
History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells, ‘Can’t you remember anything I told you?’ and lets fly with a club.
John W. Campbell, Jr. (1965)
