Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubez
- Atheology Part 1: God Doesn’t Exist; We Do (“The supernatural doesn’t matter, but humans and humanity do.”)
- Welcome to the New Trumpism (“This could be Trump’s most far-reaching impact: He’s shown how corrupt a president can go unpunished because of hyper-partisanship.”)
Bookish Linkage
- Why medieval libraries chained their books
- China bans Winnie the Pooh
- The anatomy of a book
- A Finnish novel, The Core of the Sun, won the 2017 Prometheus Award for “libertarian fiction”
- Bookish Lists: Books to understand today’s America; the most iconic book set in each country in the world; 11 novels that will inspire a Scandinavian vacation
Nonbookish Linkage
- America’s problem? No moral universals
- The Vatican (!!?!?) calls out the “spurious alliance between politics and religious fundamentalism” in the U.S.
- The town where everyone owns a gun
- Five sites and apps providing five interesting ways to read the news
- Four “scientific journals” evidently believe Star Wars is real science
- “Can I go die now?”
I can gather all the news I need on the weather report
Paul Simon, “The Only Living Boy in New York,”
Bridge Over Troubled Water
