Miscellany/Linkage « A Progressive on the Prairie

Current books:

Lonely: A Memoir by Emily White

Recent books:

Orange Sunshine: The Brotherhood of Eternal Love and Its Quest to Spread Peace, Love, and Acid by Nicholas Schou
The Twin by Gerbrand Bakker
Monsieur Pain by Roberto Bolaño
Strange Days Indeed: The 1970s: The Golden Days of Paranoia by Francis Wheen
Seth Bullock: Black Hills Lawman by David A. Wolff

Weekend Edition: 3-20

Bulletin Board

I’m a little behind on this but the Siouxland Libraries has started a blog named, appropriately, Check it out!. It has been added to the blogroll.

Blog Headlines of the Week

States Realizing That A $50 Rebate Won’t Make A Broke Person Buy A Fridge

Hysterical Amazon exec calls 911, says accelerator is stuck and he [...]

Friday Follies 2.6

Stupid Legislative Trick of the Week: A New York legislator last week introduced a bill that would prohibit restaurants from using salt when preparing customers’ meals.

Folly or bravery for a lawyer who may need to appear before the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals? “…two judges from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals [...]

Weekend Edition: 3-13

Blog Headline of the Week

One Reason To Be A Solo Practitioner Is To Avoid The Most Annoying Lawyers

Blog Lines of the Week

“Heidegger is undoubtedly a genius. You can tell he’s a genius because his philosophy is so hard to understand.” (Via.)

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

Democracy and the Appeal of Socialism

Bookish Linkage

Hilary Mantel’s Wolf [...]

Stupid Legislative Trick of the Week: Republican members of the Florida House of Representatives are proposing denying a tax credit for films or television shows filmed in the state that are not “family friendly.”

A Minnesota man has sued a “Dr. Phil” spinoff, alleging it tricked him into appearing and discussing the blemishes on his penis. [...]

Weekend Edition: 3-6

Bulletin Board

The latest developments on The Last Train from Hiroshima, which I reviewed last month, aren’t good. The publisher has pulled the book because the author wasn’t able to answer various concerns, including, according to the AP, “whether two men mentioned in the book actually existed.”

Blog Headlines of the Week

Q: Is it Really a [...]

Weekend Edition: 2-27

Bulletin Board

Looks like the author of The Last Train from Hiroshima, which I reviewed last month, got scammed by a faker. The phony information wasn’t discussed in my review.

Blog Headline of the Week

39% Of Bagged Salad Is Gross, Some Has Poop

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

Temple built 6,000 years before invention of writing suggests [...]

Weekend Edition: 2-20

Blog Headline of the Week

Gay, Mentally Challenged Biracial Male Cheerleader Claims Discrimination (Via.)

Blog Line of the Week

Libraries can be confusing places — what with all those dern ideas and books and things. (Here’s more details on the kerfuffle of Michelle Obama’s socialist books in the White House.)

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

The Return [...]

Friday Follies 2.4

Insurance.com lists “Attorney/Judge” as the most dangerous driver by profession. And, it asks, “Why chase ambulances if you can bring them to you?” (Via.)

Stupid proposed state legislation of the week: A South Carolina legislator has introduced a bill to require the use of gold and silver coins as the legal tender of [...]

Weekend Edition 2-13

It must be the mid-February, I’m sick of winter effect. A very abbreviated edition this week.

Bulletin Board

I modified my post Monday on the “blogger bills” for an op-ed piece that ran Wednesday in my hometown newspaper, the Watertown Public Opinion.

Nonbookish Linkage

A man who had a major influence on my teens and twenties has died [...]

Friday Follies 2.3

When any state legislature meets, there’s some daft bills always appear. This week’s winner comes from Iowa, where first-term Rep. Jason Schultz has introduce legislation to make it an impeachable offense for a judge to use “judicial precedent, case law, penumbras, or international law as a basis for rulings.”

Canadian Supreme Court agrees that man [...]