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.
Too Late to Say You’re Sorry
When apologies are thin solace.
New York Times
Gates Apologizes for Afghan Deaths: With all the hoopla on Wall Street, this story got little play.
CNN
McCain, Obama: Fighting for Middle-Class Voters: Don’t promise what you won’t deliver, just to get votes. We won’t forget.
BBC
Bitter Taste Over China Baby Milk: Got regulators?
Minnesota Post
St. Paul dropping all misdemeanor charges for journalists arrested during RNC: So, the whole point of the arrests really was intimidation?
Time
McCain and the Lying Game: Not that anyone disagrees, but Joe Klein (author) always does know which way the wind blows.
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.
Porcine Puke
How did the poor pig become such a maligned symbol of political posturing?
Washington Post
Tom Toles Cartoons: How to profit from slinging mud.
PBS
The Joy of Pigs: They’re so much more than a scrambled sidekick!
Lonely Planet
haute dogs in Chicago: The elitist version of a regional gustatory delight.
America.gov
“Pork Barrel” Spending Emerging as Presidential Campaign Issue: Throw out the infrastructure with the pork barrel? Explore the “shady process of doling out the pork.”
