An epic failure of the free market: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/26/opinion/blow-plantations-prisons-and-profits.html?src=recg
Yawning: Let's do this! http://youtu.be/jGIbUK4nw00
The Texas injustice system personified: http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/05/yes-america-we-have-executed-an-innocent-man/257106/?google_editors_picks=true
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- Ph.D. in US History/History of Science. Just trying to make sense of the world and living by the credo that "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts."
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- The Airborne Toxic Event, The Airborne Toxic Event
- Duncan Sheik, Whisper House
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- Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays, George Orwell
- This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald
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- The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane
- To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee
- Henry and Clara, Thomas Mallon
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: A Case in Critical Controversy, Mark Twain
- Animal Farm, George Orwell
- The Ghost Map, Steven Johnson
- Eats, Shoots & Leaves, Lynne Truss
- The Power to Destroy, John A. Andrew III
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