For quite a while now, I’ve been meaning to write about how dismayed I am by what passes for a local newspaper these days. Given my age, a variety of things irk me. But one that had been lurking in the background became fairly apparent last week. What I noticed and believe would be borne […]
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Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes American gun use is out of control. Shouldn’t the world intervene? (“212,994 more Americans lost their lives from firearms in the last 45 years than in all wars involving the US”) Do Books Make Us Better People? (“Books make us think for ourselves, rather than trying to force […] Bulletin Board Banned Books Week starts tomorrow. Here’s an idea: read Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, banned by a North Carolina school board just this week Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes The Music is Worthless (“The notion of stealing music seems quaint now; stealing implies something has value in the first place.”) Criminal of the […] |
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