The Withering Anonymity
How’s the post-privacy world working for you?
Bookslut
Anonymity: A Secret History of English Literature By John Mullan: Author Mullan reveals that the celebration of personality has all but done away with anonymity as a commodity. Credit goes to Mullan for term: “withering anonymity.”
Salon
What does Sarah Palin have to hide in her Yahoo emails?: Glenn Greenwald highlights the hypocrisy of the party that did away with privacy rights:”Shouldn’t these same people be standing up today and insisting that if Sarah Palin has done nothing wrong, then she should have nothing to hide?”
WebMD
Your Body Holds Clues to Political Views: Conservative or liberal? Even if you’re not telling, your body knows: more fearful responses, more authoritarian controls.
The Other Woman
She’s into so much more than shooting wolves, dressing moose, or standing in the way of feisty librarians!
Haaretz
Tzipi Livni is Israel’s Barack Obama: The people have voted for Livni because of her inexperience. And her honesty. And her disinclination to gladhand.
The Nation
Mad for Rachel Maddow: Is this anti-bubblehead broadcaster the poster girl for a post-gender world?
AP
Clinton Avoids Palin, focuses criticism on McCain: HRC refuses to be sidetracked by the sideshow.
Big Think
Queen Noor on Rebuilding America’s Credibility: Investing in the bridge to somewhere, a Middle East that respects the West.
Feisty Librarians
Today’s librarian: She may shush you, but she will stand up for your right to read anything. Anything.
GOOD Magazine
Stop Teaching Catcher in the Rye! Has that old sandby of teen angst lost its relevance? Is it time to make changes to the high school literature canon? You decide. (Be sure to read the comments, too.)
FactCheck
Sliming Palin: Did Sarah Palin drag Catcher in the Rye and Harry Potter tomes off the Wasilla library shelves? No, she didn’t. Did she try to intimidate the librarian? They’re a tough bunch, those librarians, not so easily ruffled.
Discover
Whales Had Legs Until 40 Million Years Ago, Fossils Show: Is this the sort of article that offends creationist mayors?
American Library Association
Banned Books Week: It’s that time of year, once again, to support your favorite banned books by such venerable authors as Mark Twain, Judy Blume, J. D. Salinger, J. K. Rowling, Maurice Sendak, and Toni Morrison.
The Virginia Quarterly Review
Young Reviewers Contest: If you’re under 30, submit a book review to compete for publication.
Cultural Wars
Despite calls for unity, cultural tribes line up for confrontation. Can’t we all just get along?
NY Daily News
Giants and Jets fans join uproar over stadium naming rights bid by firm with Holocaust ties: What do a beloved local football stadium and a concentration camp have in common? Where’s the bottom line of lucrative sponsorship contracts? Corporate culture vs. fan culture in New York.
Haaretz
Israel Asks for Arms, Air Corridor to Attack Iran: “The security aid package the United States has refused to give Israel for the past few months out of concern that Israel would use it to attack nuclear facilities in Iran included a large number of “bunker-buster” bombs, permission to use an air corridor to Iran, an advanced technological system and refueling planes.”
The Man Booker Prize
Man Booker shortlist announced: Can too many good books be a bad thing? Probably not, but it was an especially difficult challenge to select from the formidable long list this year. How many of the finalists have you read?
Politico
Palin reignites culture wars: Latte Libs vs. Rightous Repubs bring it on after Alaskan veep candidate makes her appeal.
Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet: the blog
Cultural Olympics, 2012: Of course we all know the UK will be hosting the Olympics in 2012. But, did you know about the Cultural Olympics to be held there as well, and in the same year? Get the scoop at Shakespeare’s blog. You didn’t know he had a blog, did you?
saber rattling
On the seventh anniversary of September 11, threats abound between nations, in nature, and the world of finance.
Palin’s Dangerous Saber Rattling
The Huffington Post
Ilan Goldenburg, policy director of the National Security Network, explains why it was imprudent of Sarah Palin to advocate invasion of Russia by the United States, given a history of painstaking diplomacy between the two countries. Her statements were made during an interview with Charles Gibson for ABC News.
Putin Warns West Against Starting Arms Race
International Herald Tribune
Russia’s Vladimir Putin warns Western nations that setting up a missile defense in Europe may provoke an unnecessary arms race, reserving his harshest criticism for the US and Britain.
Bush Said to Give Orders Allowing Raids in Pakistan
