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Weekend Edition: 3-31

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

The Internet’s Cult of Now (“Is it possible that, as a society, we will no longer be able to remember the past and no longer envision the future, when all of our collective energies are put into imagining the now?”)

In Which I Dare Connecticut To Come Get […]

Weekend Edition: 3-24

Bulletin Board

My Sweet 16 started yesterday. I watched three NCAA Division I hockey games, have all or parts of five other games on my schedule for today and another two tomorrow (both will have to be DVRed because I will be at the Stampede game during the first one and don’t want to learn […]

Weekend Edition: 3-17

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

America the Possible: A Manifesto, Part I (“The hard truth is that our political system today is simply incapable of meeting the great challenges described here. What we have is third-rate governance at a time when the challenges we face require first-rate governance.”) (via)

The Difference Between Public […]

Weekend Edition: 3-10

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

Imagination & Community (“I am convinced that the broadest possible exercise of imagination is the thing most conducive to human health, individual and global.”) (via)

Bookish Linkage

The misanthrope’s guide to reading while traveling.

The National Book Critics Circle Awards were announced this week. Since the shortlist was […]

Weekend Edition: 3-3

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

No Words Should Be Banned (“Words have power – but silence is not the answer to undermine or overcome that power, if we disagree with what that power does.”)

Ban This Book: An Uncensored Look At The Lorax And Other Dangerous Books (“Since the dominant ideology of the […]