Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubez
- Religion, Legitimacy, and Government in America, A Just-So Story (“How is it, then, that religious belief can be both foundational to American democracy and a profound threat to it?”)
- Dr. Seuss’s Mistakes Are the Least of Our Troubles (“of all the racist, sexist, classist things children are exposed to, decades-old children’s books seem pretty low on the list”)
Nonbookish Linkage
- Influential conservative think tank says more than half of Americans aren’t really ‘Mericans
- The antiscience crusade is lethal
- So, of course, there’s a COVID-19 conspiracy boot camp
- The pandemic’s “wrongest man”
- There’s no middle ground in American law
- Fake news from 700 BCE
- This isn’t what the evangelicals expected when they backed the Teflon Antichrist
- A brief history of false claims of child victimization
- Every world map is wrong
- A katydid sounded the first musical note on earth 165 million years ago
Bookish Linkage
- The opening lines of books rewritten for the pandemic
- World Literature Today announced the longlist for its “21 Books for the 21st Century”
- Writers seem to have no problem insulting other writers
There are far too many commandments and you really only need one: Do not hurt anybody.
Carl Reiner, JWeekly, Nov. 12, 2009
