Just Links...

Links!

• Libraries, Books, Writers, & Suchlike
• A Jubilant IFLA Conference Opens in Cape Town 
• Chelsea Manning denied access to legal library prior to prison hearing, she says  
• Vernon Area Public Library No Longer Collecting Overdue Fines 
• Maintain Your Productivity Flow by Reading During Your Breaks 
• Are Americans falling in love with censorship? 
• U.S. 287 book tosser pleads guilty to littering, ordered to pay $1,725 for clean-up 
• Stop Feeding the Beast – The Reading Myths We Pass on As Truth 
• Net, Tech, Health, & Science
• NSA Spying Relies on AT&T’s ‘Extreme Willingness to Help’ Related: Here’s Why the Close Collaboration Between the NSA and AT&T Matters "New disclosures about the National Security Agency’s partnership with AT&T could reignite constitutional challenges to the spy agency’s efforts to wiretap the Internet."
• The Weight of the World "Of all the jobs in the world, Figueres’s may possess the very highest ratio of responsibility (preventing global collapse) to authority (practically none). The role entails convincing a hundred and ninety-five countries—many of which rely on selling fossil fuels for their national income and almost all of which depend on burning them for the bulk of their energy—that giving up such fuels is a good idea."
• Louisiana
• It's illegal to chase a fish in a city park; A guide to silly LA laws 
• Politics
• Carly Fiorina as a boss: The disappointing truth 
• A reporter asked Bernie Sanders about Hillary Clinton's hair. His reply: 'Do you have serious questions?' 
• Authority Issues
• The ‘only town’ in America where cops grant amnesty to drug addicts seeking help YES!!! 
• When Our Truths Are Ignored: Proslavery Theology’s Legacy 
• What Happens When Minority Kids Are Taught Not to Talk About Race 
• International
• Bangkok bomb: Deadly blast rocks Thailand capital 
• The village where men are banned 
• Europe shouldn’t worry about migrants. It should worry about creeping fascism Same for the U.S., too. 
• Other (Serious Stuff)
• Giving housing to the homeless is three times cheaper than leaving them on the streets 
• Red Cross CEO Tried to Kill Government Investigation "Despite public vows of transparency, CEO Gail McGovern lobbied a congressman to spike an inquiry by the Government Accountability Office." 
• Feds allow Shell to drill for oil in Arctic Ocean off Alaska Now taking bets on when the next oil disaster will strike...
• Other (Randomness)
• The Late, Great Stephen Colbert "I love the thing that I most wish had not happened.  I asked him if he could help me understand that better, and he described a letter from Tolkien in response to a priest who had questioned whether Tolkien's mythos was sufficiently doctrinaire, since it treated death not as a punishment for the sin of the fall but as a gift. 'Tolkien says, in a letter back: "What punishments of God are not gifts?"' Colbert knocked his knuckles on the table. '"What punishments of God are not gifts?"' he said again. His eyes were filled with tears. 'So it would be ungrateful not to take everything with gratitude. It doesn't mean you want it. I can hold both of those ideas in my head.'"