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Monday Night Infinite Jest (and More)
* The MLK Memorial opened today on the Washington Mall. Pretty visually stunning. * zunguzungu has your Libya links. * The headline reads, “The Scramble for Access to Libya’s Oil Wealth Begins.” *...
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Love Everybody, Make Up Your Mind, Wake Up and Fight
Woody Guthrie’s New Year’s Resolutions, 1942.
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Tuesday!
* Great research opportunity for any PhD student studying science fiction, fantasy, horror, and/or utopia: the R.D. Mullen Fellowship. I loved the time I spent in that archive. * CFP: The cultural...
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End of 2013 Mega Link Dump – All Links Must Go!
* This gentleman violently inserted his finger into dozens of victims’ anuses. Sometimes his friends held guns to the victims’ heads to force them to comply. Why was he sentenced to just two years in...
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Wednesday Night!
* Kinsey gaffe from the Times re: CUNY: Mr. Milliken, 56, the president of the University of Nebraska since 2004, will take over a school system that has undergone a spate of recent expansion but is...
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Sunday Afternoon
* ICYMI: Dr. Seuss Explains Assessment, Metrics, Administrative Blight, and Pretty Much Every Aspect of the Contemporary Education System. * This is, I think, literally the first time I have ever heard...
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Good Morning, It’s the Weekend
* Teach the controversy: are students cuddly little bunnies to be drowned, or shot with Glocks? This story is actually worse than even the original reporting indicated. * I’ve argued here before (I...
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Lockdown Megapost Part Two, Just the Bad News for Everyone Else
* The coronavirus is rewriting our imaginations. Kim Stanley Robinson on His Next Novel, The Ministry for the Future. Ten Minutes with Kim Stanley Robinson. * I’ve been too busy to post, but...
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Surprise Friday Night Links for a Day You’re Probably Surprised Is Actually...
* Don’t sleep on Grad School Vonnegut’s Jailbird episode! Next week: Deadeye Dick, (genuinely) my sleeper hit of the summer… * One of my better citations: “Fitness Fanatics: Exercise as Answer to...
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