The Authoritarian Streak in the Conservative Movement:
The despotic personality types we see in the Bush White House have their origins in the amoral politics practiced by the low-lifes of the Nixon administration.
That is an excerpt from John Dean's new book (which is on my amazon wishlist....cough, cough...).
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We've all been down with colds this weekend, nothing really serious, just uncomfortable. Or rather, nothing really serious in my estimation. My husband, on the other hand, is always pretty sure he might be dying whenever any minor virus hits him.
SciAm's Invention is reporting the filing of a patent for a vomit ejector -- a ultrasonic pulse that irritates the wall of the trachea triggering the patient too
Circus of the Spineless #15 has been posted at Words & Pictures. Go check out the best invertebrate (cough, paraphyletic taxon, cough) blogging from the past month or so.
Don't you live near a library? Nowadays you can visit many libraries virtually and get on the hold list for a popular title. (I'm #6 in a queue of 26 waiting for the Dean book in my multi-branch county.)
Support your local library!
I am greedy that way. I like to own the book I read, keep it, come back to it over time, etc. That's why our home collection is so huge.