Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubez
- Donald Trump’s War on the 1960s (“…how nice it was that [religious and ethnic minorities] knew their place, didn’t get too uppity and honored the primacy of Christians and whites who, the story goes, steadied and built the United States.”)
Practicing Law 101
- If opposing counsel seeks sanctions against you, calling in a bomb threat isn’t good strategy
Legal Irony of the Week
- The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is deciding a significant free speech issue on the rights of anonymous Internet users in a totally secret proceeding
Most Mortifying News of the Week
- The number of nitwits here never ceases to amaze
Bookish Linkage
- How reading helps us understand other perspectives
- A flood earlier this month damaged or destroyed 6,000 books in Phoenix’s main public library
- Bookish Lists: Sioux Falls native Sam Kean’s six favorite surprising books; 10 books starring juries; five books about the humanitarian crisis in Syria; 30 feminist children’s books; 14 books about books; 11 dystopian novels from around the world
Nonbookish Linkage
- There’s a dangerous virus loose in Washington
- The game Monopoly was invented to demonstrate the evils of capitalism
- 570 pages of Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks are now available online
- Can you be a Christian atheist?
- And is this the mark of the beast?
- People who swear are more honest than those who don’t, ergo I’m really fucking honest
Freedom of religion in America is all fine and good until you start believing in nothing, and then it is a crime to be punished.
Joshua Ferris, To Rise Again at a Decent Hour
