Biweekly Edition: 1-29

For a variety of reasons (including laziness), Weekend Edition will appear every two weeks, hence, Biweekly Edition.

Best Blog Headline

• Theologians were paid to think about alien life. I’d rather they watch ‘Spaceballs.’

Most “No Kidding?” Research Result

• Social Media Is Impacting Young People’s Mental Health, New Research Shows

You Could Have Fooled Me

• “As it turns out, there is substantial evidence that people who endorse weird beliefs are not very good at research.”

Nonbookish Linkage

• There seems to be a ton of deliberate ignorance these days

• John Mellencamp’s truth

• Will uselessness make you happier?

• More than 90,000 photos commissioned by the Farm Security Administration during the Depression were “killed”

• It’s a sad commentary that the Insurrection Index is needed and useful

• America is now in fascism’s legal phase

• Well, this is good news now that I’m a senior citizen

• The history of the birth certificate

• America’s “baby farms”

• Seven extinct occupations

• Prehistoric technological geniuses

Bookish Linkage

• Here’s a nefarious idea: let’s withhold funds from libraries until they remove “homosexual materials” from their shelves

• And, of course, a naked mouse will corrupt young minds

• The real Lord of the Flies

• The “hatchet job” book review

Counting Crows, “Possibility Days,” Somewhere Under Wonderland