- It’s Banned Book Week.
- Sound Advice: “I would encourage everybody, think in terms of what your reader wants. These are ultimately consumer businesses and if you piss off enough of them, you will not have any more.”
- On the decline of the English Department: ” … at the root is the failure of departments of English across the country to champion, with passion, the books they teach and to make a strong case to undergraduates that the knowledge of those books and the tradition in which they exist is a human good in and of itself.”
- Toilet Paper Origami? Fabulous!
- Touching story about what happens when appearance changes after becoming ill.
- Military daughters inspiring other military daughters.
- Somebody oughta jump on this! We could save millions, I say, millllions: “‘The federal government risks losing millions of dollars in royalties from natural gas production because it does not promptly determine and collect when it gets shortchanged, according to congressional auditors.”
- 20 countries weigh in on stimulus measures and government oversight of economies.
- What if keeping women safe meant educating men?
- Need to find an ‘ism’? Well this list probably has more than you need.
- History of female matadors in Spain … totally cool (not for the bull, but definitely for women in the sport).
- “Failure to understand the adversary” among the top ten strategic blunders according to Richard Rumelt.
- “…we win the minds of Iraqis by building things like schools, bridges, and roads, but we win their hearts by building relationships and giving them respect.” A Foreign Service Officer reflects on his time in Iraq.
- I can’t IMAGINE why the general public could be so ill informed with regard to the health insurance reform debate: “We urge TV health news decision-makers to realize how often they’re doing more harm than good with so many of their non-evidence-based, cheerleading promotions of treatments for wrinkles, weight loss, baldness, toenail fungus, etc.- and breathless enthusiasm for new devices and other “new stuff” in health care.”
- Health Insurance Reform Health Insurance Reform Health Insurance Reform.
Finally…
If you haven’t seen the following, you MUST!