Bulletin Board
- Next week brings the first couple installments in a series of posts on World War I in South Dakota
- Today is National Pet Day (we have to wait until August for National Dog Day)
Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes
- An Atheist Considers God’s Plan (“If someone hides behind one of these veils to help them make it through, so be it. It might be nonsense, but that’s absolutely no reason to belittle or insult someone wrestling with deep anguish, or to feel personally betrayed by their approach.”)
Unique Crime of the Week
- In Palm Beach, a woman was arrested after she “poured barbecue sauce on her husband and went after him with a knife in each hand.”
Bookish Linkage
- The bestselling books at Amazon? Coloring books for adults
- The book purge (I am currently in the midst of a MASSIVE one)
- Bookish Lists: Best Translated Book Award fiction longlist; Independent Foreign Fiction Prize shortlist; Andrew Carnegie Medal finalists; books about bipolar disorder; 50 greatest baseball books; 50 best genre-bending novels; 100 best books of the decade
Nonbookish Linkage
- Happiness fascism mandates a state of continual near-explosion
- Although killed in committee, the bill to “encourage and protect the teaching of certain scientific information” (i.e., anti-evolution, anti-global warming) was named “Worst State Bill” violating the separation of church and state
- The man who just missed killing Hitler — in 1939
- Religion and Coltrane‘s A Love Supreme
- Religion in the NHL
All knowledge, the totality of all questions and all answers, is contained in the dog.
Franz Kafka, “Investigations of a Dog,” The Complete Stories
