Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubez
- Coping with Constitutional Ignorance and Alienation (“Constitutional ignorance is not new. But it is now more consequential than ever. Coping with it is now a matter of some urgency.”)
Nonbookish Linkage
- Vaccine hesitancy and refusal are “a sign of extreme privilege“
- One of my favorite college professors on the threats to democracy
- Guitar contemporary thinks Frank Zappa “could have made the best American president ever“
- The media, hippies, and the “Summer of Love“
- A “minor planet” is coming to the Solar System
- Self-castration in the 16th and 17th centuries linked to romantic disappointment
- A history of the end of the world
- Medieval killer rabbits
Bookish Linkage
- How to write a novel in three days
- Where are all the wild things, Daddy?
- Was Bob Dylan the inspiration for Carrie?
The layman’s constitutional view is that what he likes is constitutional and that which he doesn’t like is unconstitutional. That about measures up the constitutional acumen of the average person.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black, Feb. 25, 1971
