Bulletin Board
- In Memoriam: Brian Griffin
- Next Saturday is Take Your Child to a Bookstore Day, Currently, bookstores in Pierre, Rapid City and Sioux Falls are participating.
Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes
- I Hope My Father Dies Soon (“I’d like to proactively end his suffering and let him go out with some dignity. But my government says I can’t make that decision. Neither can his doctors. So, for all practical purposes, the government is torturing my father until he dies.”)
- What a Real War on Christmas Looks Like (“Use whatever metaphor you’d like, but ‘war’ might be slightly melodramatic. And historically insensitive. There has been a war on Christmas before, a very real war that resulted in widespread death and dramatic change to the way people celebrated the holiday.”)
Blog Headlines of the Week
- Recall: Baby Monitors Should Monitor Babies, Not Strangle Them
- First Amendment Trumps Birthers, Stupid People, Walruses
Bookish Linkage
- I don’t know if I’m intrigued or unnerved by the concept of North Korean SF
- A library branch in San Antonio claims to be the first book-free library (Kudos, though, to the person who commented, “A library without books is called a building”)
- A reader gives thanks
Nonbookish Linkage
- So much for taking advantage of a teaching moment on bullying
- Drug-related violence in Mexico has led to increasing demand for exorcists
- How the economists stole Christmas
Monday is an awful way to spend 1/7 of your life
Steven Wright
