Here's a mefi post about damaged books and
marginalia. Oh, the things I've seen.
Also, two crime novelists I like:
Andrew Vachss and
George Pelecanos. Also, I'm a huge
Jim Thompson fan, but, like, guh. The man is the Elvis of crime fiction.
And, two different
mefi threads about Bush and education in Texas (check the first thread for links to anti-five-paragraph-essay
arguments). Here are the main articles referenced, from 60 Minutes II and the
NYT.
Also, in the both-
Slashdot-and-
mefi category, anti-pomo-litcrit stuff from a hard scientist--in this case, an
engineer.