What Better Way to Show Someone You Love Them?

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Links!

Happy birthday, Alice Walker!
Retired Berea College Faculty Member Authors Appalachian Dance Book "Spalding’s book analyzes how issues as different as industrialization around coal, plantation culture, race relations, and the 1970s folk revival profoundly influenced freestyle clogging and other dance forms like square dancing. Her research identifies how African Americans and Native Americans, as well as European immigrants drawn to the timber mills and coal fields of Appalachia, brought movement styles that added to local dance vocabularies."
An Early Peek At Pratchett In 'Dragons At Crumbling Castle' I've got this book on hold at my library. (That's right - librarians have to wait on hold lists, too.)
One Of The Most Important Lawsuits In The History Of Hollywood Is Quietly Happening
Why Americans Don’t Read Foreign Fiction
The History of “Loving” to Read "For a long time, people didn't love literature. They read with their heads, not their hearts (or at least they thought they did), and they were unnerved by the idea of readers becoming emotionally attached to books and writers. It was only over time, Lynch writes—over the century roughly between 1750 and 1850—that reading became a 'private and passional' activity, as opposed to a 'rational, civic-minded' one."

Fox host: FEMA is unnecessary because Walmart will ‘spontaneously’ save us all in a disaster
A Baton Rouge ER Is Closing Because Bobby Jindal Won't Accept Medicaid Expansion "The nearest ER for residents who are currently served by Mid-City is now 30 minutes further away, and it's a certainty that people are going to die because of this. But what's the real story behind this closure? Shouldn't the expansion of Medicaid be offsetting the increased losses on uninsured patients? You bet it should. And it would, if Bobby Jindal were willing to accept Obamacare's offer of virtually free Medicaid expansion." Related: When a state blocks Obamacare, ERs close: The lesson of Louisiana
Speaking While Female "When a woman speaks in a professional setting, she walks a tightrope. Either she’s barely heard or she’s judged as too aggressive. When a man says virtually the same thing, heads nod in appreciation for his fine idea. As a result, women often decide that saying less is more."
Religious post: Reading The Bible Like We Read The Quran

Bonus shot of me wearing the hat I crocheted for myself, by special request:

Steampunk Gypsy