Weekend Reading: October 16, 2015

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The Rocky Horror Picture Show; now and forever; the cast (even Meatloaf) reunites for the 40th.
New York in the ’70s: “…everyone who read Andy Warhol’s Interview knew one another.“
Brazenhead, the bookstore in an apartment, comes back to life.
Print and read: How to buy a bohemian escapade; or, why libertarian moguls just love Burning Man.
For hetero normative couple’s night, your best choice for a movie would be either Lord of the Rings (any of the series) or Wizard of Oz, based on this.
Captain Marvel, feminism, and Bitch Planet.
This Uber driver’s average hourly earnings: $5.83.
Fantasy sports fans rendered as a crazy guy with a knife.
Print and read: Bernie Sanders, “…the last person you’d want to be stuck on a desert island with. Two weeks of lectures about health care, and you’d look for a shark and dive in.“

Weekend Reading: October 9, 2015

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After each gun massacre, the new hospital pizza tradition.
Fewer guns, fewer shootings—it’s not that complicated.
The lieutenant governor who thinks that “Fellow Christians who are serious about their faith” need to own a handgun.
The ever-shrinking number of Americans who owns guns still control the debate.
Ben Carson, superhero.
Stephen King, pro gun-control gun owner: “Can’t put a seatbelt on a semi-automatic.”
No, a gun-owning citizenry wouldn’t have stopped the Holocaust.
90 people a day.
Here are the people who could do something.
Print and read: The idea that valiant gun-owners can defend everyone from mass shootings is a myth.

Weekend Reading: October 2, 2015

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It’s time: Translating Shakespeare into English.
So, the idea is to…?
Ikea for refugees.
Unfortunately for all the Lynne Truss types out there, punctuation is, has been, and will always be frustratingly inconsistent.
Is there water on Mars? If so, it’s all part of the liberal agenda.
The Martian: One astronaut’s review.
Diagnosis: Gay marriage derangement syndrome.
20 or 30 years ago, Americans eating and exercising exactly the same as they would today gained less weight.
Print and read: “Yesterday’s poets are today’s detectives”—An excerpt from Patti Smith’s new book.

Weekend Reading: September 25, 2015

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Is your ad-blocking app destroying journalism?
Yes, it could happen.
The doomsday seed vault is opened for Syria.
Coming soon to a drone near you: Lasers.
Ignoring new Pope when they feel like it.
Refugees and fragile states as the century’s defining issue.
A few Scandinavians are responsible for pretty much all hit music; Or, how to get from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs to Kelly Clarkson in one chorus change.
Making the classics all smutty.
Print and read: The “Forgotten Battalion” fights to save themselves from suicide.

Weekend Reading: September 18, 2015

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Here’s what to do about St. Louis; the full report.
The billionaires who wanna be president.
When trying to make yourself a martyr ends up hurting your cause.
The surprising millennial fastidiousness when it comes to grammar and spelling.
Which candidate thinks African Americans are not actually (legally speaking) citizens?
The glorious weirdness of Soviet bus stops.
“Complaining about book prices: $20.00” and other great bookstore signage.
Print and read: When Ted Bundy’s mother talked to the mother of one of his victims.

Weekend Reading: September 11, 2015

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Political pundits on the (maybe) verge of extinction.
Scarlett Johannson’s attempt to stop the publication of a French novel about a woman who appears to be Scarlett Johannson, fails.
And the cycle of evil is now complete.
A chart of where in Europe the refugees are going.
New language: American.
Print and read: The banlieues of France, where bleak postwar architecture meets alienation, religious fanaticism, and occasionally hope.

Weekend Reading: September 4, 2015

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Over half of the psychology papers being published maybe shouldn’t be.
The link that wasn’t: Dre, Tupac, and Burning Man.
“We are not a big city anymore.”
When it came to autism, Dustin Hoffman didn’t help.
Bonnet rippers and other tales of the Amish publishing mini-boom.
No, there won’t be a third Harper Lee novel.
Print and read: Totally awesome excerpts from Cameron Crowe’s original Fast Times at Ridgemont High book.

Weekend Reading: August 28, 2015

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The 1815 Tambora eruption caused darkened skies, apocalyptic gloom, blizzards in June, and changed art to boot.
In China, plenty of new cities, just no people to fill them.
What’s “hybrid war“?
Maybe it wasn’t Brownie’s fault. Says Brownie.
How would you even deport 11 million people?
Something else that the Stanford Prison Experiment didn’t consider.
Print and read: El Salvador’s murder rate is nearly 1 out of every 1,000 people.

Weekend Reading: August 21, 2015

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Ferguson, St. Louis, and how it feels to be ignored while being gawked at: “We are a showcase of shame, with no end in sight.”
Who’s watching the drone that almost crashed into the plane you’re on?
Back in vogue: “Illegals.”
New in defense: Blimps.
This week in espionage: Hamas detains dolphin.
Trump’s bill for Mexico.
The average American life, quantified.
A good reason to stop buying prawns.
Print and read: Trigger warnings and the culture of intellectual infantilization of American colleges.

Weekend Reading: August 14, 2015

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Weekend Reading: August 7, 2015

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Weekend Reading: July 31, 2015

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Weekend Reading: July 24, 2015

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Weekend Reading: July 17, 2015

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Weekend Reading: July 10, 2015

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Piketty: Germany never repaid its war debts, so where do they get off lecturing Greece?
People are still giving lots of money to Ted Cruz.
Denver weed growers using too much power.
Homer Simpson meets Donald Trump.
Scribd, which offers unlimited ebooks for a monthly fee, sharply cutting back on romance and erotica “because readers are gorging themselves.”
Future of American military aviation: The trillion-dollar fighter plane that can’t dogfight.
If you’re arrested in New York for a nonviolent crime, no more need to post cash bail; here’s why doing that in the first place might be unconstitutional.
In Texas textbooks, the Civil War apparently had little to do with slavery.
Print and read: Do you need to know what “stagflation” means? Or, the uses of cultural literacy.

Chris Barsanti

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