Legal Advice of the Week
- “Here’s a tip: if you’ve been doing something in court, and it makes the judge so mad she has to take a five-minute recess to cool off, you should stop doing that thing.”
Nonbookish Linkage
- The most vaccinated in America? Atheists, at 90 percent
- I remain continually appalled by the number of lunatics in our country
- California’s vanishing hippie utopias
- How the government created the lazy stoner stereotype
Bookish Linkage
- Denmark has a “human library”
- Want to Write N’ Fight?
- The world’s greatest bibliomaniac
- I’ve actually read the winner of this year’s Dayton Literary Peace Prize in Fiction
- I haven’t read any of the Cundhill History Prize finalists but one is on my tablet (with way too many other books)
[N]o one was interested in the facts. They preferred the invention because this invention expressed and corroborated their hates and fears so perfectly.
James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son
