Weekend Edition: 1-28

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The Main and Ronning branches of Siouxland Libraries have registered to be book pickup locations for World Book Night. The library will have a party for the book givers selected by World Book Night and give them a reusable Siouxland Libraries bag. You can apply here to be a book giver.

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Weekend Edition: 1-21

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

Torturer’s Apprentice (“… the [Bush] administration’s threshold for when an act of torture begins was the point at which the Inquisition stipulated that it must stop.”)

10 Reasons The U.S. Is No Longer The Land Of The Free (“Since 9/11, we have created the very government the framers [...]

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Weekend Edition: 1-14

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In the Land of the Non-Reader (“As a non-reader I felt free to happily non-think all day.”) (via)

The Remains of an Illegal and Immoral War (“The rate of birth defects in Fallujah is 14 times the rate after our nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in World [...]

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Weekend Edition: 1-7

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

Why you don’t really have free will (“Our brains are simply meat computers that, like real computers, are programmed by our genes and experiences to convert an array of inputs into a predetermined output.”) (via)

The death of the celebrity memoir (“If we really wanted these annoying figures [...]

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Weekend Edition: 12-31

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Given the date, it would be uncurmudgeonly of me not to note, “Another year shot to hell.”

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

A Year Without Fear (“So far, my strategy of being more adventurous was producing mixed results. My life seemed richer and more interesting—but it also involved a lot more groaning, [...]

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Weekend Edition: 12-24

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How Thomas Jefferson Created His Own Bible (“…he eschewed anything that he perceived as ‘contrary to reason.’”) (via)

Christmassy (?) Linkage

Maybe it’s going to be a Christmas present for the Pope. “The Vatican said on Wednesday an unknown buyer had snapped up the internet address vatican.xxx, a domain [...]

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Weekend Edition 12-17

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

Don’t Support Your Local Bookseller (“There is little that’s ‘local’ about most local bookstores.”)

Best New Christmas Tradition

Layaway Secret Santas

Blog Headline of the Week

Use caution when using teeth to castrate lambs

Blog Line of the Week

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Weekend Edition: 12-10

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

Apocalypse Soon (“It is easy to feel overwhelmed, confused, weary, and crushingly sad. In this context, the idea of the Apocalypse can be comforting.”) (via)

Bookish Linkage

Truly a lot of hoohah over nothing.

On writing and jazz

The Library of America starts offering e-versions of its [...]

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Weekend Edition: 12-3

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Today is Take Your Child to a Bookstore Day. It appears, though, that Prairie Pages Bookstore is the only South Dakota bookstore participating.

Although it’s still months away, I am excited enough about World Book Night coming to the U.S. that the site has been added to the blogroll.

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Weekend Edition: 11-26

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

George’s God (“Well into his forties he kept swinging between the poles of his double life as only a true Manichean can, a rock star buried in a pile of cocaine one minute and a sadhu renunciant fingering his beads the next. But by his fifties he had abandoned [...]

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