Weekend Edition: 4-24

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubez

• Sadly, Hatred is Very Much American (“Americans don’t have to be ‘carefully taught'” to hate. Historically, it’s been inherent, one generation after another. The only change has been the target.”)

Blog Headlines of the Week

• Roger Stone Quit Paying His Taxes Because DEEP STATE

• ‘Anglo-Saxon’ Is What You Say When ‘Whites Only’ Is Too Inclusive

Nonbookish Linkage

• Journalists accuse Minnesota law enforcement of harassment

• The Supreme Court has just created an aristocracy of the religious

• The battle over the secret menu and codes in McDonald’s ice cream machines

Bookish Linkage

• Simon & Schuster employees accuse it of “perpetuating white supremacy” and protest it buying Mike Pence book

• About 98 percent of the books publishers released last year sold fewer than 5,000 copies

• Why did so many Soviet citizens read in the bathroom?

• Scammers are after British literary awards

• Speaking of which, the International Booker Prize shortlist is out (I’ve read one of the six)

Thomas Paine, The Rights of Man