Totes in Favor
From Sweater vests, Politicizing on A Librarian’s Guide to Etiquette: Conference attendees are encouraged to wear sweater vests to champion citizens’ freedom to read. If you do not have a sweater vest,...
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From Fox News interviews Dick Cheney for gun control advice on Raw Story: Dick Cheney may have accidentally shot a man in the face while he was vice president, but that didn’t stop Fox News from flying...
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Low-Hanging Fruit
Oh, good god — Amazon’s apparently putting the “art” in “mart”: This summer Amazon is planning to launch a Fine Art Gallery where customers will be able to purchase original artwork offered by a...
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…I super-secret probation double-dog pinky swear. From Ark. District Arming Teachers, Staff With Guns on ABC (via): [Assistant Principle of Clarksville High School Cheyne] Dougan is among more than 20...
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Marriage: Specifically Designed To Make It Really Painful To Get Out Of
Some people thought that my earlier comments on what I thought of marriage were a bit too strident: For much of its history, marriage was all about transferring ownership of a woman from her father to...
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Thunderbolts and Lightning, Very Very Frightening
Well, speak of the devil; HBO’s about to go all Yul on our ass and it ain’t even Christmas (via, & also via CM): HBO has given a pilot production commitment to Bad Robot and Warner Bros. TV for a...
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Mistakes Were Made
Via Dan Amira, here’s what’s possibly the feel-good education story of the year: Imagine sending your child on a class trip, then finding out she and her classmates were called the “n” word and chased...
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So Wednesday, accidental porn star and Idaho Governor Butch Otter “signed into law SB 1254, the bill to allow people with Idaho’s enhanced concealed carry permit to bring guns on Idaho public college...
View ArticleStupid Remakes
There’s no particular reason not to remake Don’t Look Now, but remaking Escape From New York just seems idiotic to me. The context is critical: in 1979 NYC was in bad shape, so while imagining it as...
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