Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes
- America: Stupidly stuck between religion and science (“So on one hand we have atheists whose views would have seemed old-hat under Queen Victoria but who see themselves as representing the apex of progressive modern thought, and on the other we have a modern twist on religion that pretends to be ancient or traditional. Biblical fundamentalism as we know it today is essentially a 19th-century British invention that took root among white rural Americans much later than that.”)
Blog Headline of the Week
Worst Irony of the Week
- A lawsuit claims a high school chemistry teacher set a student on fire during a demonstration of ignition
Dogs Are People Too
- A German Shepherd in New Jersey received a summons for jury duty last week
Legislative Idiocy of the Week
- The Louisiana House of Representatives scheduled floor debate for Monday on a bill to make the Bible the “official state book“
Bookish Linkage
- Do we have an obligation to “orphan books“?
- For the second year in a row, Captain Underpants topped the American Library Association’s list of the 10 most frequently challenged books
- Defending “difficult” books
- On the off chance you were wondering, Owensboro, Ky., has the most librarians per capita
- Bookish Lists: Best Translated Book Award shortlist; 21 female authors you should be reading; 50 great short novels; five books for men who don’t read books (although the fifth one is very questionable)
Nonbookish Linkage
- C’mon now, you gotta admire some of Larry Flynt’s ideas
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
Albert Camus, Notebooks, 1942-1951
