Biweekly Edition: 3-26

Bulletin Board

• There’s a couple new items in Curmudgeon’s Gallery

Most Obvious Headline

• New Research On Trump Voters: They’re Not The Sharpest Tools In The Box

Nonbookish Linkage

• Two years of Covidiocy

• The right’s slant on religious freedom is a slippery slope

• When I practiced law, I wholeheartedly agreed that this is a total waste of space and time

• Putting time in perspective

• Utopian groupies

• Is the Shroud of Turin a tablecloth?

• The Great Zeppelin Raid of 1916

• Secret messages in famous statues

Bookish Linkage

• Now Oklahoma wants to require librarians (who a lawmaker compares to cockroaches) to inform on children

• But sometimes right wing crazies can help book sales

• Bookstores do seem to be carrying a lot more f*cking books these days

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[S]ome people’s idea of [free speech] is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage.

Winston Churchill, October 13, 1943