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(Extended) Weekend Edition: 8-24

This edition is much longer than usual because travel and a get-together time with two daughters (and three dogs at the best dog park I’ve seen) last weekend made everything else low priority. As a result, some of these links are carried over a week.

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

Writers should take a […]

Weekend Edition: 8-10

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Who knew? Today is supposedly Book Lovers Day (something real book lovers celebrate yearround). Maybe it’s a good day to embark on my new goal of paying a quarterly book tax by buying at least $100 worth of books at the local indie bookstore.

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

It’s Been Real, […]

Weekend Edition: 8-3

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Best wishes to Bob Mercer as he recovers from a health problem (and learned how good medical care is in SD)

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

Blinded by the war on terrorism (“Demanding zero risk of terrorism at home, moreover, makes it easier for terrorists to succeed. If the bar is set […]

Weekend Edition: 7-27

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

Growing up Muslim in America (“… while the heightened sense of a threat from Islamic terrorism that existed post-[9/11] may have gone, it has given way to a persistent, low-level paranoia that pervades the everyday lives of the million-plus Muslim Arab Americans living here and throughout the country.”) (via) […]

Weekend Edition: 7-21

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

Liberty—Myth or Fantasy? (“Our country no longer hungers for the myth of liberty; it is starving from its absence. In place of this myth, various groups have established their own set of beliefs and moral goals, all of which are designed to encompass a few but hold out the […]