Some stuff to read
I've been sidetracked the last couple nights by Martin Scorsese's Bob Dylan documentary on PBS. Time will be short tonight.---
An odd distinction perhaps, but, for me, this is the funniest story to come out of the Katrina destruction. Opportunistic Republicans went searching for dead victims whose heirs would have benefitted from the repeal of the estate tax. They're still searching.
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The mainstream national media has moved on to other things, but the New Orleans Times-Piscayne has this collection of some of the stories from the early days of the Katrina disaster that turned out to be exaggerated or untrue.
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It's Banned Books Week. The American Library Associaton gives us the 100 most frequently banned books of the 1990s. Head to your local library and sign out a dozen or so.
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Will Conan O'Brien have to change his act when he takes over the Tonight Show in four years? Not exactly a time-sensitive issue, but it is the topic of this illuminating article. If you read the whole thing, I'll send you a personalized plaque of achievement.
posted by CM @ 10:02 PM
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How many of the books on the list have you read? TA
I count nine, plus another four or five movies or stage plays. I wrote #23.
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