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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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Weekend Edition: 4-13

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The Digital Public Library of America opens Thursday

National Library Week starts tomorrow so make it a point next week to thank library workers

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The white man Jesus (“Questions of race and identity have now become inescapable elements of any public presentation of the Bible.”)

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Weekend Edition: 4-6

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Seeing and believing (“A large element of rationalist doubt certainly accompanies the decline of interest in the paranormal, driven primarily by … cultural and, latterly, technological factors. Yet underlying that doubt itself is the growing incredulity with which people evaluate anything.”)

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Women have written […]

Weekend Edition: 3-30

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My day at Westboro Baptist: “Yes, Jesus hates you” (“Few things irk Westboro’s members more than the widespread belief, even beyond the church, that Christ was a sweet, all-loving man. God does not actually love everyone, they say, only those whom He chose for heaven.”)

“Most contemporary literary […]