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Weekend Edition: 4-11

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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 […]

Weekend Edition: 4-4

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

Meet The Weather Underground’s Bomb Guru (“Thus the question arose: What could they take along to reliably deflect a policeman’s curiosity? One answer was children.”)

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Demanding Sex For Legal Services Frowned Upon In Indiana

Bookish Linkage

With today’s Hugo Award nominees announcements some ask […]

The telephone number transformation

There seems to be no rhyme or reason to what sticks in our minds from childhood. As I look back, I can’t figure out why the announcement of telephone number changes in the early ’60s stays with me.

Anyone who’s watched a 1950s or early 1960s movie knows telephone numbers then wasn’t just a series […]

Weekend Edition: 3-28

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Late posting today because it’s my annual hockey binge weekend: 10 televised NCAA regional tournament games, with the added bonus of great Stampede games last night and Thursday

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

Once and future sins (“…one thing is certain: in 100 years, ordinary people will look back at us and […]

Ban my book… please

“Banned book” brings to mind censorship, repression. But a different facet intrigued Helen Gurley Brown 43 years ago when she wrote her publicist about her forthcoming book, Sex and The Single Girl — publicity.

Sex and The Single Girl was on the cutting edge of the cultural revolution in the 1960s and feminism. Some 40-plus […]