Daily Archives: August 1, 2012

Kill Everyone in 7 Nations When the LORD your God brings you into the land you are about to enter and occupy, he will clear away many nations ahead of you: the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites. … Continue reading →

Chick-fil-A Introduces New Hate Sauce : The New Yorker.

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The idea that someone would invent quotations by one of the most famous musicians alive would seem incredible. Of course, Bob Dylan’s actual words resist easy interpretation. http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/31/interpreting-dylan-always-treacherous-was-lehrers-undoing/

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Simple rules for becoming a better writer, from the author of “Zone One.” http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/29/books/review/colson-whiteheads-rules-for-writing.html

A century after the peak of American piano manufacturing, the dump is increasingly becoming the destination for instruments that are unwanted or too expensive to maintain. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/30/arts/music/for-more-pianos-last-note-is-thud-in-the-dump.html

As American students wrestle with algebra, geometry and calculus — often losing that contest — the requirement of higher mathematics comes into question. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/29/opinion/sunday/is-algebra-necessary.html

Mr. Vidal was an elegant, acerbic all-around man of letters who presided with a certain relish over what he declared to be the end of American civilization. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/01/books/gore-vidal-elegant-writer-dies-at-86.html

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