In Other News...

I very much enjoy philosophy parties, and MB is a great babysitter.

That is all.

Links!

• Libraries, Books, & Authors
• Cleveland, TX pastor wants "demonic" books pulled from the shelves of the public library 
• Readers absorb less on Kindles than on paper, study finds 
• Poet Known As The 'Lioness Of Iran' Dies At 87 
• The land of 10,000 lakes now has a floating library 
• Happy birthday, Edgar Lee Masters! He wrote Spoon River Anthology, a wonderful collection of fictional epitaphs that explores small town American life. You can go get and read the print version, or explore the poems online. 
• God at Nuremberg: How an American pastor came to comfort Nazis 
• Net & Tech
• Does the White House’s cybersecurity czar need to be a coder? He says no. I don't suppose the Surgeon General needs to know anything about medicine, either.
• The Information Counter-Revolution "The information age has entered a new era — one where our rights to connect and communicate are under constant siege by governments and corporations."
• For Internet celebrities, net neutrality proves a cause célèbre 
• Twitter confirmed: Tweets from people you don’t follow will show up on your timeline But...I don't want that...
• 'Orange is the New Black' fight sparks new House Wikipedia ban 
• University Bans Social Media, Political Content and Wikipedia Pages On Dorm WiFi 
• Ferguson
• “I kill everybody, I Don’t Care.” Mentally Deranged, Right Wing Fanatic Cop Suspended In Ferguson (VIDEO) 
• An incident report on the killing of Michael Brown is finally released ... and tells us nothing 
• A woman shot during Ferguson protests says police are not investigating 
• Eye-witness accounts of Mike Brown's murder, in chronological order. #Ferguson 
• Other
• The 10-Year-Old Boy Has Died, Probably Of Ebola 
• The Student Loan Crusader: How Elizabeth Warren Wants to Reduce Debt 
• House Candidate Called Female Senators "Undeserving Bimbos in Tennis Shoes" 
• From Missouri to Syria, Journalists Are Becoming Targets 
• 63 trillion gallons of groundwater lost in drought, study finds