On Friendship
…the best relationships are voluntarily chosen, the highest and purest relationship is friendship; there is no one down and it’s voluntary on both sides.
Culture
Perishable Art
These Chinese Watermelon Drawings are pretty astounding.
Hmmm, …Not Going to Participate at This Place
It’s called Shagster.net and
is a site to keep track of your sexual conquests, and give them a rating out of 10 for their troubles.
I admit to having signed on to Classmates.com but haven’t found a compelling reason to join any of other online communities and as John says: This may be the worst Internet community idea I’ve yet encountered…
Harmful Books
For your edification Human Events has compiled a list of harmful books:
HUMAN EVENTS asked a panel of 15 conservative scholars and public policy leaders to help us compile a list of the Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries.
They don’t really define harmful or to whom these books will be harmful but each listing does come with a brief rationale. Your mileage may vary….
And, as Radley Balko notes they don’t want to burn them they want you to buy them via their Amazon account link!
Update (6/1): Tom Traina has a suggestion for an addition to this list.
Revenge of the Sith
We went to Star Wars: Episode III tonight and enjoyed it. Fie on all the folks who have been panning it and providing lengthy lists of how they could have done it better, etc., etc. The fact is that they didn’t. Perhaps their time will come down the road a bit. No links for them.
It was entertaining, provided plenty of fodder for discussion and left us ready to watch episodes IV-VI again soon!
NB: I was pretty certain it would be just fine when a I read Jaquandor’s discussion last week and suggest that you head right over there if you want to read the goods on this episode and the double trilogy.