Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes
- Brown University’s Campus Liberals vs. Free Speech (“On the surface, campuses like Brown’s seem hegemonically liberal. But in my experience, that apparent consensus conceals a crucial gulf between students and faculty who hold left of center opinions but accept basic norms of fair play and students who consider freedom of speech a scam employed by the powers that be to perpetuate their racism/sexism/classism/imperialism/homophobia.”)
- Almost Without Hope (“Currently, prisoners receive significantly higher per capita health-care funding than Native Americans.”)
- 10 Novels to a Better You (“Christ, if all this reading has made me a better or wiser person, I’d hate to think what kind of monster I’d be without it.
Blog Headline of the Week
Blog Line of the Week
Lawsuit of the Week
- Irwindale, Cal., is suing a Sriracha factory on the grounds its spicy odor is a public nuisance
Instilling Confidence in Law Enforcement Story of the Week
- An Arkansas woman’s lawsuit claims a city cop chased her through her workplace, shooting a taser at her, because she refused to show him her breasts
Instilling Confidence in Traditional Media Moment of the Week
- On Monday, the Wall Street Journal gave its “The Experts” column to Suzanne Somers on the Affordable Care Act (Jenny McCarthy must have been too busy with her new television gig)
Bookish Linkage
- Texas library issues arrest warrants for overdue books
- Seems like “best books of the year season” starts about as early as Christmas anymore
- An examination of various heaven travelogues
- A beginner’s guide to Canadian literature
- Trapped inside the novel
- George R.R. Martin, the author of the Game of Thrones series, says his books are actually dirtier than the porn parody that’s been released
- The influence of avid reading on Presidents Truman, Teddy Roosevelt and Wilson
Nonbookish Linkage
- Even though Halloween is over, governments are still witch-hunting, for real
- Meanwhile, the U.S. has hundreds of practicing exorcists
- Our obsession with al-Qaeda is doing more damage to us than al-Qaeda itself
- I think the NSA learned this from the Dubya administration
- Walmart’s parking lot nomads
- Ten trials that changed the world
- Space pron
- Something else to worry about — peak garbage
It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts
Bill Vaughan, Sunbeams
