Worthy Reading in the Interweb Tubes
Google’s Book Search: A Disaster for Scholars (“In short, Google has taken a group of the world’s great research collections and returned them in the form of a suburban-mall bookstore.”) (via)
Building a Nation of Know-Nothings (“It’s one thing to forget the past, with predictable consequences, as the favorite aphorism [...]
Okay, this one may be tough to top. Seems attorney Ed Ablard has filed a civil rights lawsuit because Alexandria, Va., approved a permit for a new barbecue restaurant with an open-air gas grill. He claims the restaurant will “provide a clubhouse for conservative persons to gather to drink until late hours and [...]
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This week’s review of Our Tragic Universe made the Noteworthy Content of the Week at the official blog of 9rules.
Worthy Reading in the Interweb Tubes
Ten things I know about the mosque (“The instinctive response of Americans should have been the same as President Obama’s: Muslims have every right to build there. Where one [...]
A federal judge is allowing a lawsuit by a Hawaii man against the publisher of an online virtual-world game go forward. The lawsuit alleges the man became so addicted to the game that he is “unable to function independently in usual daily activities such as getting up, getting dressed, bathing or communicating with family [...]
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I should have mentioned it before since it ended with July but I did not succeed with the Random Reading Challenge. I made it 75 percent of the way there but under the grading standards in the local schools that’s a “D”. Even the host, Caribousmom, also didn’t make her goal. [...]
A Florida man was arrested after punching the father of an autistic because the child disturbed his dining experience at Olive Garden. (via Jonathan Turley)
The North Carolina State Bar has filed charges against an attorney who is alleged to have asked a divorce client how much it would cost to unbutton or remove each [...]
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David Wolff, author of Seth Bullock: Black Hills Lawman, which I reviewed earlier this year, will present “Seth Bullock-Law and Order in Deadwood” at the Main Siouxland Library this Tuesday at 7 pm. The program is free and open to the public.
Blog Headline of the Week
Are Conservatives Pussies?
Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes
The [...]
Evidently the law enforcement training sessions at the FBI Academy do not include copyright law, such as public domain or fair use. Or, to quote Popehat, “I own one two hundred sixty millionth of this seal.”
Dead man gets ticket for parking too long in 2-hour zone. (The parking enforcement office “rapped on the [...]
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The guide for the South Dakota Festival of Books I mentioned in this space last week is now available online. The complete schedule is also available at the event’s website. As you will see, most likely tomorrow, the festival is affecting August Bibliolust.
Blog Line of the Week
Jessica Crispin describes her recent book [...]
A man is suing employees of his church, the First Love Church Healing Center, claiming the pastor had them take turns hitting him on his bare buttocks and lower back for looking at an unspecified website the pastor didn’t approve of.
A Moldovan priest is accused of accidental homicide after he allegedly drowned a [...]