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Weekend Edition: 5-25

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I just want to mention it was my 32nd wedding anniversary this past week — and, amazingly, she still loves me.

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Twenty-five Signs You’re Addicted To Books (“The first step is admitting it. The second step is to keep right on reading.”)

The Curse of Reading […]

Weekend Edition: 5-18

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Shooting Our Way to Safety (“Guns, as even half-wits ought to realize, are manufactured not by freedom-loving patriots, but by people for whom private profit outweighs public good. … Preventing criminals and mentally ill people from buying guns would cut into their earnings.”)

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Sci-Fi […]

Weekend Edition: 5-4

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Personal Remembrances of the Kent State Shootings, 43 Years Later (“Students today … don’t see protesting as part of the First Amendment. I think maybe they are desensitized; I don’t know. What have they experienced in their young lives that would cause you to stand up and be willing […]

Weekend Edition: 4-27

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My J-school buddy Tom Lawrence has started a blog called Prairie Perspective, which will provide “news, commentary and history on politics, life and culture in South Dakota and the Upper Midwest.” (Must say I like the name.)

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Who is the Real Enemy of the State? (“In essence, […]

Weekend Edition: 4-20

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Tuesday is World Book Night

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The Hell of American Day Care (“The United States has always been profoundly uncomfortable with the idea of supporting child care outside the home, for reasons that inevitably trace back to beliefs over the proper role of women and mothers”) (via)

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