Weekend Edition: 8-5

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubez

The Real Legacy of Crazy Horse (“Official high-school graduation statistics for Pine Ridge are hard to come by, but one official estimated that, for every 100 children who enter kindergarten, just 30 will get their high-school diplomas.”)

Cogito Zero Sum (“Dangerous and stupid opinions are ‘normalized’ and given an equal footing with others that have substantiated themselves through some agreed-upon criteria of legitimacy.”)

Three Trump Speeches and the Death of a Nation (“What’s appalling, Mr. President, is that the moves you envision diminish us as a nation, remove all traces of grace and charity, play to the basest instincts and demean the high office you hold.”)

Practicing Law 101

Bookish Linkage

Foreign ambassadors select books to read and films to watch before visiting their country

10 pivotal books on feminism; 45 19th century novels that still belong on bookshelves today; books to warp your sense of reality; 9 SF books that imagine the future of healthcare

Nonbookish Linkage

When one argument is titled “Anyone Can Legally Say, ‘Eat Shit, Bob!'” you’ve got a legal brief worth reading

When you have nothing to think about, you can do your best thinking.

Drake Baer, “‘Unloaded’ Minds Are the Most Creative,”
New York Magazine (June 20, 2016)

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