Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubez
- SCOTUS Won’t Explain Why It Keeps Blocking COVID Restrictions (“Without issuing any signed opinions of the court, SCOTUS has revolutionized the constitutional law of religious freedom.”)
Most Apt Comeuppance of the Week
- Man killed by rooster he was readying for a cockfight
Elitist Ass of the Week
- Presumptuous plastic surgeon appears in traffic court via Zoom from the operating room
Nonbookish Linkage
- We desperately need a disinformation vaccine
- Here’s a tool kit for discriminating among fringe ideas
- The culture wars have never been dumber and, by the way, can we stop talking about cancel culture?
- COVID vaccines and legalistic America
- Why is electroshock therapy still a psychiatric treatment?
- Film of the first black boxing champion winning a fight was banned (last week was the 50th anniversary of Miles Davis’s Jack Johnson)
Bookish Linkage
- Tim O’Brien interview discusses upcoming documentary about writing his last book
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
H.G. Wells, The Outline of History
