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Weekend Edition: 2-16

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

How Crazy Is Too Crazy to Be Executed? (“You might wonder what Andre was thinking when he removed the children’s hearts and placed them in his pockets to take home”)

Bookish Linkage

Ten things that happen to your mind when you read (via)

What is a book snob? […]

Weekend Edition: 2-9

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The South Dakota Humanities council and Siouxland Libraries were selected for Bridging Cultures Bookshelf: Muslim Journeys. Developed by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Library Association, the program seeks to introduce the American public to the people, places, history, faith and cultures of Muslims in the United States and around […]

Weekend Edition: 2-2

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

The magical land of NRAnia (“In this land, guns do not kill people. People kill people. Guns are suspiciously present at a number of these incidents, but their friends swear that they were not involved. They just have bad timing[.]”)

Batshit Craziness of the Week

A Tennessee man took […]

Weekend Edition: 1-26

Bookish Linkage

George Orwell’s review of one of my Desert Island Books, Arthur Koestler’s Darkness at Noon (via)

Evidently a writer’s advance is subject to seizure if his book has the same name as the terrorist organization he’s writing about

Please stop writing memoirs

Amazing Stories, Hugo Gernsback’s groundbreaking SF magazine, has […]

Weekend Edition: 1-19

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So the NHL has ended the walk-out and begins play today. Screw ’em. The NHL’s not getting my money for the Center Ice package or anything else this year. When millionaires fight billionaires, I’m more than happy to stick with watching junior and college hockey.

Blog Headline of the Week

Ravens QB Flacco […]