StrangeSox

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entr...enghazi?ref=fpb I remain baffled. What the hell is even allegedly being "covered up" here? This is just the Clinton-era never-ending series of faux-scandal after faux-scandal. White Water! Vince Foster! Lewinski! Fast and Furious! BENGHAZZZZZIIIIII!!!

WHY WON'T THE MSM COVER THIS!!!!??? (sorry, just trying to fit in!)

IRS apologizes for targeting conservative groups

From Time, 1941:

What the author did "on accident" could be meaningful and say something about the author or the culture/society/times they lived in, though.

OTOH Nabokov included some statements at the end of Lolita, or at least later editions of it, where he lambastes reviewers who take it as an allegory for the US being violated by Old Europe or vice-versa; he's taking a stance that his work means what he says it means and that reading all that extra stuff into it is nonsense.

QUOTE (Middle Buffalo @ May 10, 2013 -> 12:40 PM) I like reading, but I never liked trying to figure out symbolism, etc. I just like reading a book for enjoyment. I sometimes wonder if teachers assign meaning to things that the author never intended. FWIW a high school teacher is going to be falling back on typically a lot of academic literary criticism and not discovering the symbolism for themselves. There's a school of thought that authors say many things without consciously meaning to. edit: the whole "Death of the Author"/postmodern deconstructionist movement http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_the_Author No I don't actually understand any of that.

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QUOTE (RockRaines @ May 10, 2013 -> 11:57 AM) Wuthering Heights I hated. Burn all 19th Romantic literature. Expunge it from the face of the Earth. I couldn't get into Joyce in high school, but I've re-read some of his stuff recently and enjoyed it.

Animal Farm was just a pro-Trot allegory for the rise of Lenin and then the Stalin-Trotsky conflicts. I think a lot of people read their own ideas into that story.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ May 10, 2013 -> 10:03 AM) The articles make it seem like only one company making the printer and a specific software can make the gun. Edit: Well, I guess multiple printers, but a specific software: Still, 3d printers are very new and it's not a product an average american is going to buy. They're industrial machines. They're pretty bad-ass! Wish I had one. I'm sure any of these printers comes with the CAD-CAM software necessary to run the printer with any generic part file.

There's a huge range of companies that offer 3D printers. Since the file's down, I can't check, but I imagine that it's a generic 3D CAD file, a .stl or .stp or .iges or something. Could be opened in any 3D CAD program and interpreted by any 3D printer unless they did something weird so that you could only use one specific type of printer. There's several different types of 3D printing technology and maybe this gun only works with one of them, but there's still multiple manufacturers of the printers.

How would they track that any more than they could track who buys an $8,000 stereo or diamond necklace?

Attorney Who Advised Kiera Be Charged With Felony, Drops Charges In White Teen’s Fatal Case Days Later Small-scale science experiment that harmed no one and nothing? CHARGE HER AS AN ADULT WITH A FELONY! Shoot your brother dead with a BB gun? Tragic accident, so sad.

Enron's Jeff Skilling poised to get 10 years taken off of his sentence

I tried to get my wife to read it but she just couldn't get into it

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ May 9, 2013 -> 08:46 PM) I always like Midsummer Nights Dream Ugh, but only because I had to read it like 4 years in a row.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 10, 2013 -> 08:27 AM) I didn't see it mentioned, but one I did love was The Most Dangerous Game I always forget the name of that one, but that was another good story and frequently referenced in pop culture.

QUOTE (illinilaw08 @ May 10, 2013 -> 08:18 AM) Loved: To Kill a Mockingbird Call of the Wild Into the Wild (was one of a number of choices for an independent reading thing my Jr. year of high school) My Antonia (actually had to read it twice. Liked it way better time 2) Hamlet Catch-22 Hiroshima Struggled with: Great Expectations. Seemed long for the sake of being long. Read Catch-22 in high school as one of our "independent study" novels. Read it several times since and probably my favorite book. Still haven't read the sequel Closing Time, though. I read Great Expectations three or four years ago. Agreed that it was a struggle to get through at times. Found the same with Brothers Karamazov, even though I really enjoyed it. If you like Russian lit, Chekhov's The Princess is a great short story, only a few pages long. It's notable for its portrayal of clinical narcissism and all of the diagnostic markers for it years before it was fully understood as a psychological problem.

QUOTE (iamshack @ May 9, 2013 -> 05:26 PM) I think the worst one ever was The Scarlet Letter burn all victorian romantic literature

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/09/us/defic...l&_r=1&

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ May 9, 2013 -> 03:00 PM) All very good books, I'd recommend reading them as for the most part they are really worth reading. Siddartha was the first book assigned to me going into high school (it was summer reading before the school year started) and I just couldn't get into it when it was assigned. I reread it a few years later and loved it. I take that back about 1984, we did have to read that (I still have my copy from high school!) I've read the others in recent years. Actually just finished To Kill a Mockingbird last weekend. Something like Of Mice and Men or Animal Farm can be finished in an hour or so.

QUOTE (Chilihead90 @ May 9, 2013 -> 02:52 PM) Well we read chapters in class, did assignments on them, watch the movie. I know the story, I just found it really boring. It's about more than just a basic plot. Plot's just something to build your themes and ideas around.

Somehow I never read Catcher in the Rye, 1984, Animal Farm, Of Mice and Men, To Kill a Mockingbird, any Twain and a bunch of other "everybody reads those in school" books.