Blogroll

Weekend Edition: 7-5

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

Pay Attention! (“Happiness is absorption.”)

The Dangerous Lies We Tell About America’s Founding (“If we get lazy about our historical facts, we risk accepting at face value the interpretation of those facts we’re being fed.”)

Blog Headline of the Week

Photogenic Felon’s Modeling Contract Means Doom For Us […]

Weekend Edition: 6-27

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

Prey (“Unbeknownst to me, I wasn’t preparing to survive another attack, but rather to execute one.”)

Why I’m so happy to be Foyled again (“Imagine getting to the end of your days with a lifetime of reading behind you and there being nothing to show for all those […]

Weekend Edition: 6-21

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

Was This Student Dangerous? (“…despite clear and repeated instructions, the undergrad was writing things that had nothing to do with class assignments — things that made the other students afraid.”)

Blog Headline of the Week

Pope Francis says no to pot while sipping on wine

Arrests of the Week

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Weekend Edition: 6-14

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

We are losing the art of reading (“the innate human desire to make ourselves look cleverer than we are, combined with an overabundance of consumer choice and the intense cultural bombardment of the digital age, means we increasingly lack both the time and willpower to engage with anything longer […]

Weekend Edition: 6-7

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

Death Takes No Holiday (“Death, unlike the railroads, publishes no schedule. Untimely is the adjective most often paired with death, but what would constitute a timely death?”)

Blog Headline of the Week

Woman Not Guilty of Chemical Warfare; Constitution Saved

Best Blog Line of the Week

“Paris Hilton, like […]