Given that it’s the Board of Directors that really picks the finalists, I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that, once again, none of my personal books of the year and at best one of the books I voted for is on the short list for the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award. At least I’ve […]
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Blog Headline of the Week Sneezy After Sex? You Could Have Post Orgasmic Illness Syndrome Blog Lines of the Week “Anyone who thinks that six-year-old girls can’t make convincingly feral wolves has never had a six-year-old girl.” “Hey, how come all the newspapers and magazines are ignoring this Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother […] Some things you just can’t make up: “The Louisiana Supreme Court has ordered the permanent disbarment of an attorney who, among other things, brought a sixteen year old “assistant” into the Bunkie Detention Center to perform oral sex on two incarcerated clients while the attorney captured the encounter on videotape. The reason? He said he […] If there’s one thing that can be said about music, it’s that as much as we may love it we generally don’t want to think about it. After all, music speaks to the emotions, not logic. That’s why if you ask someone about the music they like, you will get a list of genres or […] Bulletin Board As any state immigration legislation is on the immediate horizon, there will be a free showing of the award-winning documentary 9500 Liberty at 6:30 pm this Thursday (Jan.) at the Main Library. The film documents the only two months in American history where an “Arizona style” immigration law was actually implemented and the […] |
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