Wedding gift ideas
Nothing says love like custom taxidermy. (Thanks GMB.)
Library patron arrested under Patriot Act
From MobyLives:
A New Mexico man who was arrested and handcuffed under the Patriot Act while in the St. John’s College library because of material and research he was looking at in the library has testified to state legislators that police “asked was I anti–American, how I felt about the war in Iraq and (about) Israel.”
Lee Klein interview
This week Zulkey interviews Eyeshot’s Lee Klein. I could say all kinds of earnest, glowing things, but you should probably just read the interview.
Tax blather
The streamlined sales tax project, a multi-state effort, would (with Congressional approval) require out-of-state retailers to collect sales taxes on Internet and mail order sales.
R.I.P. *
“‘Buffy,’ in this incarnation, is over,” says Gellar. (Thanks Max.)
Speaking of fries
The back of these kiddie overalls “features the question ‘You want fries with that shake?’” A “super unique set, sure to attract attention.” (Thanks to the Wired-in Chris Baker.)
It starts with fries and ends with ROTC
I took my cousin and her friend to lunch at Petite Abeille this afternoon.
We ate mussels and fries and sandwiches on good baguettes, and right before we parted ways she told me that her twin brother, who is in his first year at a southern liberal arts university, is likely to accept a scholarship from [...]
For tourist and veteran alike
Old, but posted in honor of my 18-year-old cousin who is visiting from Nashville: The Morning News Guide to Urban Etiquette.
Shafer interview
MobyLives has published an interview with Seth Shafer, author of “Main Strength,” the story that won academic awards after Princeton student Ung Lee made minor modifications to it and submitted it as his own.
Stolen online short story wins academic awards
Seth Shafer, editor of Pig Iron Malt, won a $1000 prize from Fictionline for his short story “Main Strength” back in the summer of 2001.
Some nine months later, Ung Lee, a Princeton University student,* allegedly ripped off Shafer’s story. He changed some details, renamed the story “Accidents,” and turned it in as his thesis.
The big sister
Did anyone else have an “I’m the Big Sister” t-shirt as a kid?
Mine was pink with hot pink lettering, and my sister had the matching little sister shirt.
Wonder of wonders
Thomas finally disagrees with Scalia. (Thanks Matt.)
Postcards from the edge
On March 26, 1928, there was some bad news.* (Brought to you by the ever-fab Ang)
Feeding your fears about the medical establishment
From my friend KD:
Somewhere in New Jersey a car salesman just decided how to treat your grandmother’s Alzheimer’s.
Move over, Realdoll
“Girl scent” is now available in a bottle. “Not safe for work or human dignity,” says Choire of East West.
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