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Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes Why I Make Terrible Decisions, or, poverty thoughts (“We know that the very act of being poor guarantees that we will never not be poor.”) The FBI files on being and nothingness (“Hoover needed to know if Existentialism and Absurdism were some kind of front for Communism.”) Blog […] I went to a Catholic grade school growing up and, oddly, a conversation with a friend yesterday about the anniversary of the JFK assassination enlightened me on how early the indoctrination sinks in. I was in second grade on Nov. 22, 1963, and remember someone calling our teacher — a nun — to the door […] Evidently it doesn’t take much any more to start throwing around death threats. Locally, the mischaracterization of a recent decision by the Sioux Falls School District has led to school board members receiving a variety of menacing calls and emails, some threatening death. And it’s all because of “patriotism.” See, the School Board recently amended […] Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Defender of the Constitution (“You may have nothing in common with the Boston bombing suspect. But if the feds can bar him from communicating privately and effectively with his attorneys before he is even convicted they one day may be able to prevent you from doing so […] Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes Up in Arms (“There’s never been an America, but rather several Americas—each a distinct nation. There are eleven nations today.”) Should Literature Be Useful? (“Fiction’s lack of practical usefulness is what gives it its special freedom.”) Blog Headline of the Week ‘Bigfoot Hunt’ Goes Bad: 1 Man Shot, […] |
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