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Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

The Plot to Free North Korea With Smuggled Episodes of ‘Friends’ (“When North Koreans watch Desperate Housewives, they see that Americans aren’t all war-loving imperialists.”)

Bookish Linkage

If you need an app to “sanitize” the books you read, I think you really need to meet reality

Penguin Books […]

I never knew I was in the militia

I recently read that many states have laws that automatically make virtually all men between certain ages part of that state’s “militia.” South Dakota is one of a number of states where the automatic membership arises from the state Constitution.

Article 15, § 1 of the Constitution says, “The militia of the state of South […]

Best of February 2015

Books

Hubert Wolf’s The Nuns of Sant’Ambrogio: The True Story of a Convent in Scandal epitomizes how history should be written for the general public. Although the PR around the book promises a look at “sex, poison, and lesbian initiation rites in a nineteenth-century convent,” this is in no way a lurid read. Sure, […]