Newsletter 641
[1]All of our Best of the Moment article recommendations, plus
FiveBooks interviews and other selected content from thebrower.com
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[5]My Life As A Failed Country Gentleman
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5. http://b.rw/HWFk38
PJ O'Rourke | WSJ | 13 April 2012
Farming sounds fun until you try it. "Raccoons eat the corn, squash and
tomatoes. Freezing rain take cares of everything else." But all is not
lost. "I've formed an inviolate bond with the land. The bank calls it a
mortgage" [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/my-life-failed-country-gentleman
[7]In Conversation: Barney Frank
Links:
7. http://b.rw/HC6Jpo
Jason Zengerle | New York | 15 April 2012
Candid and caustic Massachusetts congressman discusses 30 years in
Washington. Interesting throughout. On Republicans today: "Half of them
are Michele Bachmann. The other half are afraid of losing a primary to
Michele Bachmann" [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/conversation-barney-frank
[9]Karma Crash
Links:
9. http://b.rw/IqOeo0
Vanessa Grigoriadis | New York | 15 April 2012
"John Friend was the charismatic leader of a feel-good, all-American
yoga empire, 600,000 strong and counting. Then his disciples discovered
that their guru smoked pot, had sex with his students, and ran a Wiccan
coven." Oops [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/karma-crash
[11]A Season In Hell
Links:
11. http://b.rw/HUrHCk
Mark Dery | BoingBoing | 12 April 2012
Cancer survivor's meditation on pain. "I’m feeling nigh unto death,
driven half-mad by a nasogastric tube running up my nose and down my
throat, pumping a bilious green froth of stomach acid and half-digested
goop out of my belly" [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/season-hell
[13]Read This Book, Obama!
Links:
13. http://b.rw/IXJeLk
David Frum | Newsweek | 15 April 2012
Robert Caro has reached volume four of his great biography of Lyndon
Johnson, and the moment when government suddenly shifted. JFK was gone
and it was up to his ungainly, unethical successor to turn rhetoric
into legal reality [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/read-book-obama
[15]Why Did Kobe Go To Germany?
Links:
15. http://b.rw/Iu4GH4
Jonah Lehrer | Grantland | 11 April 2012
Kobe Bryant is well past the age when NBA performance usually
nosedives. How does he do it? One of the keys may be a new therapy he's
had, in which his own tissues were extracted, manipulated, and then
reintroduced to his body [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/why-did-kobe-go-germany
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Dennis McDougal on Southern California
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/dennis-mcdougal-on-southern-california
The writer dubbed “LA’s number one muckraker” peels away the phoney
baloney to tell us about power, pollution and pulp fiction in the City
of Angels [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/dennis-mcdougal-on-southern-california
Featured Special Report
[19]American Prisons
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/american-prisons
An epidemic of incarceration. A prison system that provides neither
retributive justice nor rehabilitation. Is this America's moral
catastrophe? [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/american-prisons
Reader Recommendations
@[21]polit2k Web freedom faces greatest threat ever, warns Google's
Sergey Brin [22]t.co/luU0PP2t via @[23]guardian [24]#browsings [25]More
like this
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21. http://twitter.com/polit2k
22. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/apr/15/web-freedom-threat-google-brin?CMP=twt_gu
23. http://twitter.com/guardian
24. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
25. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[26]Book of the Day
Links:
26. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/art-peace-by-erasmus
[27]The Art of Peace by Erasmus
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/art-peace-by-erasmus
[28]John Gittings says: “Erasmus marks the start of a discussion about
peace which you can trace onwards from the Renaissance and up to the
present day”[29]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/john-gittings-on-peace
29. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[30]Great American Foreclosure Song
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/videos/great-american-foreclosure-song
ProPublica enjoyed the mortgage crisis so much that it wrote a little
song about it [31]More videos
Links:
31. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[32]Clay Shirky, on publishing
Links:
32. http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/04/our-publishers-ourselves.html
"That's not a job any more. That's a button"
[33]More quotes
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33. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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