Wednesday links

Another edition of "if only I had more time" . . .

• Burn, baby, burn! Parent objects to school reading assignment for his daughter.
• Sample chapters from The Sharing Knife: Beguilement, Lois McMaster Bujold's latest fantasy novel. Amazon sent me a shipping notice for my copy on Monday . . .
• When anti-depressants don't work for some Some hope for those who do not benefit from certain drugs. (H/T to "Rowena")
• A Discworld wedding cake Just the thing for your Pratchett fan friends (H/T to Meg Justus)
• LibraryThing, an attempt to find communities of interest by common book suggestions. (H/T to Jim Hart.)
• Wikipedia's Unusual Articles page. I'd avoid going there if you are easily distracted. There are hours and hours of potentially wasted time linked from that page. (H/T to Roger Henry)
• "Only in economics can you conduct a study of Playboy playmates and not see anything."
• Upper Midwest political campaigning . . . "Wisconsin Republican runs on strong sex-with-Green-Bay-Packers platform"