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Bulletin Board Siouxland Libraries is today celebrating its 125th anniversary. Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes Jon Stewart and the Burden of History (“Now, you have to understand Jon Stewart is just like everybody else: He can be a dick.”) The Dark Side of the Placebo Effect: When Intense Belief Kills (“Laotian immigrants of […] A 290-pound stockbroker is suing White Castle because he could not fit in the booths at one of its restaurants in New York. A law firm, of all places, reportedly threatened to fire an employee who was selected as a juror in a lengthy murder trial. Tampa Bay Woman Arrested for Stripping at Club That […] World War II is often seen as the last “good war,” a clear-cut conflict between good and evil. And there was plenty of evil to go around, not just in the Axis forces. Take, for example, the case of Marcel Petiot. Petiot, a French physician, was convicted of murdering 26 people in Paris during World […] Living on the Great Plains, we can tend to think we are removed from the nation’s ongoing debate over illegal immigration. That couldn’t be further from the truth. Just last year, Fremont, a town of some 25,000 in northeastern Nebraska, drew national attention when voters approved a law fining landlords and employers who house or […] So, if a lifelong pacifist liberal says a book about how to train our soldiers is a “must read,” it must be full of peacenik bullshit aimed at undermining the military, right? Believe me, though, when I say that’s not the case with Karl Marlantes’ What It Is Like to Go to War. Marlantes brings […] |
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