If you read all these links you'll be the smartest person on your block, guaranteed.
*** Twitter has been a hummin' lately over the Rolling Stone article about a supposed gang rape at the University of Virginia. That blew up real fast, and in trying to get up to speed on it, I read this from Slate and found it very informative.
And you know that 1-in-4 college women raped statistic going around? The article shows how it came about and how whacked out it is.
*** Some people have some serious coin: Most expensive books of 2014.
*** Why raising beef can be good for the planet.
*** A bullet that has the ability to change directions. It may have once seemed like an idea out of a sci-fi movie, but it has now become a reality – thanks to the U.S military.
As they say, you can run, but you'll just die tired.
*** And if you’re into politics, a couple friends of mine have essays in this: The Plains Political Tradition.
From the RCJ: Nathan Sanderson, a historian and member of Republican Gov. Dennis Daugaard’s cabinet, wrote an essay titled “The Roots of West River Republicanism” for the recently released second volume of “The Plains Political Tradition,” a book published by the South Dakota Historical Society Press. Sanderson, who serves as Daugaard’s director of policy and operations, has a doctorate in history from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
*** Love him or hate him, Tom Coburn made his mark in the U.S. Senate. And didn't stop until the last gavel pounded.
*** I've followed Michelle Bachmann's congressional career only nominally and don't consider myself a fan or a critic, mostly just an interested bystander. Regardless of your feelings about her, if you have any, Roll Call has a pretty fair and interesting take on her retirement.
*** If you feeling like creeping through Albert Einstein’s love letters to his sweetie, check this out.
*** Baseball's popularity waning? I think not and neither does Forbes.
*** Baseball also has the biggest media company you never heard of.
*** Retiring Washington Post book critic Jonathan Yardley shares his favorite books after 33 years of reviews.
*** I’ve been hearing get things about The Book of Strange New Things.
*** In case you were looking for a new book to read, the best of Penguin Random House.
*** Heard this Junior Brown song the other day and got a kick out of it: I gotta get up early just to say goodnight to you.
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