Media Violence and Children

“Condemning the newest media because it markets violence to children is one of the oldest tropes in American politics. ... We forget that reading was the Xbox of the Victorian age, and dime novels their equivalent of violent video games.”

-- Andrew Levy, “Huck Finn’s America: Mark Twain and the Era that Shaped His Masterpiece”

Celebrities and Stuff

""I'm a Girl Watcher" (1960)" (Watch on YouTube)

via P. S. Poet

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Warm

Sunny, warmish afternoon. It has been a long time since I have had to switch to shorts because of the heat, as well as open the window in the office, and, yes, that's right, we can open the door in the big room too. We have had so much winter already that it can feel like this might be the end of that, except that we are still in the middle of January. We presumably have a couple of more cold fronts to brace for. This is more like a return to normal, when we have a lot of springy fair weather with a few islands of cold winter blasts. It's nice. It ain't the Dakotas. And it's not too hot.