- 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.
Tag: Ikea
Department of Weekend Reading: May 30, 2014
- Where authoritarian nationalism is the name of the game.
- Facebook now eavesdropping on everything being said around you.
- And the South shall indeed rise (or is it fall?) again.
- This is what Virginia Woolf looks like in a beard and turban.
- Godzilla, he just keeps getting taller; so do skyscrapers.
- In much of America, native-born people have fewer opportunities than the foreign-born.
- Going to Sonic, AR-15 at the ready.
- On the front lines with the dogs of war.
- Print and read: science fiction doesn’t just predict the future, it can make it.
Department of Weekend Reading: May 23, 2014
- No more drinks on your commute: The end of the storied bar car.
- Coming soon: more polarization!
- Kids don’t read because their parents don’t: “We’re surrounded by an implicit anti-book agenda, and still we wonder why kids don’t read books.“
- Steve Albini’s letter to Nirvana: “I have a nice 24-track studio in my house. Fugazi were just there, you can ask them how they rate it.”
- Kara Walker’s massive Marvelous Sugar Baby sculpture at the old Domino sugar factory.
- Your NASA photo of the week.
- Today’s baby, swaddled in gadgets.
- Morrissey to Crass to the Specials; some of the best hating Margaret Thatcher songs.
- Reading the rock and roll gospel of the great Lester Bangs.
- Print and read: Legos, IKEA, and the welfare state; the Scandinavian model for the future.


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