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Weekend Edition: 10-17

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As indicated by the new graphic in the right sidebar, this blog was one of about 50 selected to become new members of 9rules, a collection of blogs providing “the best content from the independent web.”

You may (or maybe not) have noticed the absence of Midweek Music Moment for a couple weeks. […]

Friday Follies 1.17

I wonder if this will pop up if South Dakota’s smoking ban referendum moves forward? A Canadian truck driver was arrested and fined for smoking in the workplace — his truck. (Via.)

Polish and Russian legislators are suggesting dealing with pedophilia by using drugs to lower the sex drive of offenders.

Poland’s lower house of […]

Booking Through Thursday: Weeding

When’s the last time you weeded out your library? Do you regularly keep it pared down to your reading essentials? Or does it blossom into something out of control the minute you turn your back, like a garden after a Spring rain? Or do you simply not get rid of books? At all? (This […]

Once again, I’m an illiterati

Now I read, on average, at least one book a week. And it’s not like I’m reading boilerplate serializations or harlequin romances. If I look back on the authors and books I’ve read, I’m certainly not embarrassed. Yet around this time each year I once again sense my “illiterati” status.

Wednesday was the latest case […]

Book Review: Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America by Barbara Ehrenreich

Two of Barbara Ehrenreich’s best-selling books are reality journalism, where she put herself in the situations she’s writing about. Thus, in 2001 she released Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, a first-hand account of trying to live on the wages of low-paying jobs, such as waitress, hotel maid and Wal-Mart associate. She […]