A Progressive on the Prairie

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I said yesterday I wasn’t going to speak up on the so-called “blogger bills” but, so far, the debate seems to lose the forest for the trees. I’ll have a post Monday on why these bills shouldn’t pass.

I was pleased to see that Five Peace Band Live, my album of the year, won [...]

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I’m not surprised because it’s happened before. The National Book Critics Circle announced the finalists for its annual awards last Saturday. As a member, I get to vote and, again, not a single book I voted for is on the list. Moreover, I haven’t read any of them. Once again, [...]

Blog Headline of the Week

Batman Says He Wasn’t Robbin’

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

Too Terrible To Be True? (Here’s the magazine article that sparked the linked article.) (Via.)

The Double-Edged Sword of Online Free Speech

A short history of radio messages to ET

Bookish Linkage

Two English professors conclude that Ralph Waldo Emerson’s ponderings are “the prose of [...]

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At first, I thought today’s post was going to be short simply due to mid-January doldrums. But, in fact, today is actually National Nothing Day. By posting, though, I suppose I’m converting it to little or nothing day.

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

The dangers of a high-information diet

Bookish Linkage

The Sweet Sixteen, a/k/a [...]

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I came across a website yesterday that prompts me to launch a reading challenge and related blog. Full details forthcoming shortly.

Blog Headlines of the Week

New planet compared to disposable coffee cup

Irritating Side Effect of Cocaine Vaccine: It Causes Users to Take 10 Times as Much Cocaine as Before

Blog Line of the Week

“The First [...]

Blog Headlines of the Week

God Doesn’t Like Crap in Art

Great Moments In Journalism: CNN.com Explores “Boozy Grandmas”

When The MSM Obsesses Over Crotches, Have The Terrorists Won?

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

Famous San Francisco Sea Lions Abandon Their Pier 39 Post

Obama and the Extraterrestrial Lobby

End of the Year/Decade Lists That Got My Attention

Roger Ebert lists his [...]

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Believing the spirit and intent of Festivus should be year-round and not just one day, I’m adding a new item to Weekend Edition: the airing of grievances. As this week’s first entry shows, it will include not only people who have disappointed me but also inanimate objects. Thus, my inaugural grievance: snowblowers [...]

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Tomorrow’s first annual Do Nothing But Read Day ranks with Festivus on the list of days that need to be declared offical holidays. (Via.)

Blog Headlines of the Week

Bug powder causes male bedbugs to stab each other to death with their penises

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

The U.S. Congress And The ‘Kind Of Blue’ [...]

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The S.D. Humanities Council has selected What Is the What for the 2010 One Book South Dakota program. The Council also is adding an online forum to the program.

Blog Headlines of the Week

American legal education — scientifically proven to be worthless, law professors jam heads up asses in response

Read this before going out [...]

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Although it’s been part of my Reader Pledge for a long time, I loved the FTC disclosures for bloggers Louis Gray came up with so much I’ve added one to the right sidebar.

Remember the documentary No Impact Man is showing Tuesday at Augie’s Gilbert Science Center, Room 100, at 7 pm.

Random Rant

More proof [...]