Not much going on today, so here’s a few links I found interesting.
- Jim Sherman at the HouChron‘s “Bookish” blog did a very nice tribute to George V. Higgins back in August. You may remember the late Mr. Higgins for The Friends of Eddie Coyle and other crime novels….
- I don’t much like talking about religion, or my religious beliefs, here. But my brother forwarded me an article over the weekend that I’m going to make something of an exception for: “‘Mr. Spock goes to church’: How one Christian copes with Asperger’s syndrome“. I’m a little verklempt, so feel free to talk about this one in the comments.
- Not bookmark fodder, but I did want to point this one out: this year is the 100th anniversary of the introduction of Camel cigarettes, which inspires one LAT writer to invective. I don’t smoke cigarettes. I do smoke a very occasional cigar. But every time I read an article like this one, or see one of those TheTruth commercials, I’m tempted to start smoking just to spite these people.
Robert N. Proctor is a professor of the history of science at Stanford University and the author of “Golden Holocaust: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition.”
“the case for abolition”? We’ve seen how well prohibition worked for alcohol. We see how well it works for marijuana. If you outlaw cigarettes, I promise you: the resulting chaos will make Prohibition and the War on (Some) Drugs look like a Sunday School picnic.