Here’s my NY Times pay-wall workaround. After I’ve used up my 20 free articles, I find a headline I of an article I want to read, right click on the link and copy it, tweet it, and then click the link on Twitter. In the event I use a NY Times article in my link roundups here, I’ll actually be linking to the tweet on the Rumpus Poetry account and you can click the link from there.
So the government is still open, at least for the moment, but this story isn’t going away for long–the debt limit will have to go up sometime this summer, and we’ll see all this again.
Kevin Spacey channels Winston Churchill on the importance of the arts.
What if your favorite album was a book?
How big a factor was the 1860 census on the start of the Civil War? Pretty big, actually.
I don’t like this extra credit idea. I do like the student who was swift enough to compare it to the selling of papal indulgences. Nice comparison!
