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Attacking the Therapeutic Society

The Clare Booth Luce Policy Institute has run a review of Christina Hoff Sommers' and Sally Satel's book, One Nation Under Therapy: How the Helping Culture Is Eroding Self-Reliance. We'd give the review a five, on a scale of 1-10, but the book sounds pretty

Harry Potter Coins

Eric Scheske isn't a big Harry Potter fan, but his wife and oldest son, Alex, love the books (last count, Alex had read one of the books (stifle gag) eight times). So this is for them: How to make your own Harry Potter coins: > You'll

Hot Comic Book

Watch for a new comic book, the eponymous offspring of a village in Michigan named "Hell." > A woman takes an ax to her husband in their new home, someone is boiled alive in a public pool and a father is swallowed by the earth. Just another day

Get in the Encyclopedia

A.J. Jacobs read the 32 volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica, A to Z. He then wrote a book, The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World. It's a good book: filled with facts and funny comments. It's

Free Koran

The Council on American-Islamic Relations is mailing out free copies of the Koran. Go here [http://www.cair-net.org/explorethequran/] to order one. Ten dudes with black scarves around their faces will even visit your house thirty days after you order. To, you know, answer any questions you have about

Runaway Book Deal

We hate to brag, but we called it [https://thedailyeudemon.com/?p=860#comments]. > New York superagent Judith Regan has bought the rights to the life stories of runaway bride Jennifer Wilbanks and her fiance after offering them $500,000 for a package that -- in an unusual twist

The Raging Atheist

The July 4th issue of The American Conservative has a good review by Marian Kester Coombs of America's Most Hated Woman: The Life and Gruesome Death of Madalyn Murray O'Hair. A few excerpts (no link available): > Despite (or perhaps because of) an IQ of 150,

Horror Covers II

If you liked that page of horror magazine covers that we posted yesterday (link [https://thedailyeudemon.com/1356/]), you might like this gallery of magazine covers from Weird Tales pulp magazines (1920s to early 1940s). Link [http://www.noosfere.com/showcase/weird_tales_1924.htm].

Porn Generation

Townhall has a bullet-like summary of Ben Shapiro's book, Porn Generation. The book sounds like it's worth reading, though we suspect it rehashes a lot of the same information that anyone with a sane eye on our culture already knows. Link [http://www.townhall.com/bookclub/

Life of Commas

While reading from Boswell's Life of Johnson last night, Eric Scheske ran across this: > 'But, (said he,) before leaving England I am to take a jaunt to Oxford . . .' We realize Boswell wrote during the comma's halcyon days (if you want another example of