Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubez
- The Long Lost Thrill of Doing Nothing (“Spontaneous idleness challenges an urge that’s deeply ingrained in many of us, especially in modern, secular societies: the persistent need to feel like we’re making something of our time.”)
- A Most American Terrorist: The Making of Dylann Roof (“Roof is what happens when we prefer vast historical erasures to real education about race.”)
- The President of Blank Sucking Nullity (“The most significant thing to know about Donald Trump’s politics or process, his beliefs or his calculations, is that he is an asshole; the only salient factor in any decision he makes is that he absolutely does not care about the interests of the parties involved except as they reflect upon him.”)
Blog Headline of the Week
Bookish Linkage
- YA bestseller or not
- Selections for an existential book club
- How to understand China through SF
- Bookish Lists: 17 books that could fix Trump’s ignorance of U.S. history; 10 debut writers worth your time; 5 novels about anarchism; 10 books about tyrants; 10 political biographies for history buffs
Nonbookish Linkage
- The socialism America needs
- Acrostics as a tool of political protest
- A college degree shouldn’t be the only way to achieve the American dream
- How Voyager made the solar system real
- Voyager’s “Golden Record” can now be purchased on vinyl
If you want to have great ideas or if you just want to get to know yourself, you must stop managing your time.
Andrew Smart, Autopilot
