Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes
- Life after Guantanamo prison (“I stopped strangers on the street in Kabul and other provinces of Afghanistan to ask if they had heard of Manhattan or the World Trade Centre. Few of them had. But all of them knew about Guantanamo.”)
- An Unthinkably Modern Miracle (“Like poverty or climate change, medicine in this country has grown well beyond our abilities to fully understand it, much less manage it.”)
Blog Headline of the Week
Adding Your Two Cents Moment of the Week
- A California man was arrested for interrupting a U.S. Supreme Court argument to announce, “Money is not speech.” (Lawyers beware. He was arrested under a statute that bans a “harangue” in the Supreme Court building.)
Most Aberrant Crime of the Week
- Two men were arrested in New York as one was trying to film the other having sex with a cow — while covered in Jello
Best Internet KO of the Week Year
- Immunologist’s “rage filled, alcohol induced response” to an anti-vaccine post on Tumbler hits the mark
Bookish Linkage
- Copies of Mein Kampf signed by Adolf Hitler sold for $64,850 at an auction this week
- Reading novels can reduce anxiety
- Round 10,367,938: literary fiction vs. genre fiction
- Bookish Lists: 11 books that will genuinely disturb you
Nonbookish Linkage
- The absolutely worst map in the United States
- You can never be too proactive: UAE clerics declare fatwa against one-way travel to Mars
- Which might also raise the question of how do Muslims pray in space?
- What happens to your brain on beer vs. coffee
- Ten things that scare really smart people
When the situation is hopeless, there’s nothing to worry about.
Edward Abbey, The Monkey Wrench Gang
