A Progressive on the Prairie

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

Americans’ Hollow Commitment to ‘Rule of Law’ (“… isn’t it somebody’s job to notice that, day by day, American freedom is becoming something far narrower than it once was?”)

Blog Headline of the Week

After Penis Implant, Man Sues Over 8-Month Erection

Bookish Linkage

We voracious readers already knew [...]

That’s right. Only one book-related links this week. Why? I attribute it to many of my usual sources being infatuated with Book Expo America this week, right after a three-day weekend. Or maybe I’m just more obtuse than normal this week.

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

Denouncing the Classics (“…the current criteria for classics [...]

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

Shooting Our Way to Safety (“Guns, as even half-wits ought to realize, are manufactured not by freedom-loving patriots, but by people for whom private profit outweighs public good. … Preventing criminals and mentally ill people from buying guns would cut into their earnings.”)

Blog Headline of the Week

Sci-Fi [...]

Bulletin Board

My J-school buddy Tom Lawrence has started a blog called Prairie Perspective, which will provide “news, commentary and history on politics, life and culture in South Dakota and the Upper Midwest.” (Must say I like the name.)

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

Who is the Real Enemy of the State? (“In essence, [...]

Bulletin Board

The Digital Public Library of America opens Thursday

National Library Week starts tomorrow so make it a point next week to thank library workers

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

The white man Jesus (“Questions of race and identity have now become inescapable elements of any public presentation of the Bible.”)

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