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Weekend Edition: 2-19

Bulletin Board

How big a national laughingstock is South Dakota with legislation to require everyone 21 and older to own a gun, arguably authorizing killing physicians who perform abortions and outlawing surrogacy? An email from my daughter attending the University of Massachusetts this week: “I told somebody I was from North Dakota yesterday to avoid […]

Weekend Edition: 2-12

Bulletin Board

Although my review essentially panned his book The Gospel of Anarchy, kudos to Justin Taylor for taking the time to comment on the review. Not only that, he is sincere and secure enough to have linked to the review on his web page rather than list only favorable commentary. As is becoming too […]

Weekend Edition: 2-5

Blog Headline of the Week

Two years later and Stephenie Meyer still sucks

Worthwhile Reading in the Interweb Tubes

Mourning a husband who has not yet passed (“…when the brain dies and leaves the body intact, there is no end.”) (via)

The Matter of Memories: The Book as an Object of Desire (“I, too, […]

Weekend Edition: 1-29

Worthwhile Reading in the Interweb Tubes

Ten Canine Commandments

Bookish Linkage

The best book review I have read in a long time: The Problem With Memoirs. (“That you had parents and a childhood does not of itself qualify you to write a memoir.”)

The longlist for the 2011 Best Translated Book Award has been […]

Weekend Edition: 1-22

Blog Headline of the Week

Sneezy After Sex? You Could Have Post Orgasmic Illness Syndrome

Blog Lines of the Week

“Anyone who thinks that six-year-old girls can’t make convincingly feral wolves has never had a six-year-old girl.”

“Hey, how come all the newspapers and magazines are ignoring this Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother […]