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Thursday marginalia

I think this game is actually recycled from a couple years ago but it’s still insightful nonetheless. (Via.) More on the so-called battle between print and internet book reviewers. Christopher Hitchens’ s God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything evidently helps contribute to The New Yorker (via) and The Nation (via) joining the […]

Weekend marginalia

A couple notes before I head off to listen to the Stampede play for the Clark Cup championship:

A CNN employee’s wishful thinking? Next month is the third annual Reading The World, in which independent booksellers promote international writers. We, of course, don’t have any participating bookstores but here’s a list of this year’s titles. […]

Catching up marginalia

As I continue to catch up on things following my trip, more marginalia:

I think it’s the DMV’s action that is “offensive . . . and not in good taste and decency.” Oh yes, let’s also mention potentially violative of the First Amendment. If the argument is that you can’t use state property for such […]

Marginalia

The lull continues, although as the books read list indicates, I am inhaling what borders on pure oxygen for me. I also have a stack of library books and books on the way from online sellers, including Better World Books, where a portion of the proceeds goes to literary projects worldwide. Still, I have insufficient […]

Interim marginalia

To show I am still alive (at least I am operating under that impression, true or not), I thought I would pass along a couple things that struck me in my recent limited trips to the internet.

I have often said over the last six years that I feel like we are living in a […]