Weekend Edition: 6-15

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?”)

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After Penis Implant, Man Sues Over 8-Month Erection

Bookish Linkage

We voracious readers already knew [...]

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Weekend Edition: 6-8

Last weekend, the BEA led to only one Bookish link. It ended and there are plenty today but only one Nonbookish link because otherwise all would deal with the NSA spying program. Take note, though, of a bitter irony — today marks the 64th anniversary of the publication of George Orwell’s 1984.

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Weekend Edition: 6-1

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 [...]

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Weekend Edition: 5-25

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I just want to mention it was my 32nd wedding anniversary this past week — and, amazingly, she still loves me.

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

Twenty-five Signs You’re Addicted To Books (“The first step is admitting it. The second step is to keep right on reading.”)

The Curse of Reading [...]

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Weekend Edition: 5-18

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.”)

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Sci-Fi [...]

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Weekend Edition: 5-4

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

Personal Remembrances of the Kent State Shootings, 43 Years Later (“Students today … don’t see protesting as part of the First Amendment. I think maybe they are desensitized; I don’t know. What have they experienced in their young lives that would cause you to stand up and be willing [...]

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Weekend Edition: 4-27

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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, [...]

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Weekend Edition: 4-20

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Tuesday is World Book Night

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

The Hell of American Day Care (“The United States has always been profoundly uncomfortable with the idea of supporting child care outside the home, for reasons that inevitably trace back to beliefs over the proper role of women and mothers”) (via)

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Weekend Edition: 4-13

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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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Weekend Edition: 4-6

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

Seeing and believing (“A large element of rationalist doubt certainly accompanies the decline of interest in the paranormal, driven primarily by … cultural and, latterly, technological factors. Yet underlying that doubt itself is the growing incredulity with which people evaluate anything.”)

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Women have written [...]

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