Weekend Edition: 5-18

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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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Weekend Edition: 5-4

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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.)

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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

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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

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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

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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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Weekend Edition: 3-30

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My day at Westboro Baptist: “Yes, Jesus hates you” (“Few things irk Westboro’s members more than the widespread belief, even beyond the church, that Christ was a sweet, all-loving man. God does not actually love everyone, they say, only those whom He chose for heaven.”)

“Most contemporary literary [...]

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Weekend Edition: 3-23

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The Last Letter (” I write this letter on behalf of us all—the human detritus your war has left behind, those who will spend their lives in unending pain and grief.”) (via)

Voices from Solitary: A Sentence Worse Than Death (“What nobody knew or suspected back then, not [...]

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Weekend Edition: 3-16

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You can’t get this book from Amazon (“If books are part of the soul of any house, then bookshops are the equivalent for a town.”)

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Estonian man returns library book 69 years late, blames WWII

Traffic Engineers Strike Back at Topless Women Boaters [...]

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Weekend Edition: 3-9

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Bestselling author (and Sioux Falls native) Sam Kean will discuss his latest book, The Violinist’s Thumb at the Main Branch of Siouxland Libraries from 7 to 8 p.m. Wednesday

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Bibliocide (“Although they went through various editions, encyclopædias belong to a time when knowledge was owned by a [...]

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