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We Must Protect the Children, and Other News
By
Dan Piepenbring
March 28, 2014
On the Shelf
Presented without further comment:
John Updike’s shorts
.
What if
The Road
,
The Corrections
, and
Wonder Boys
were children’s books
? (The illustration of Alfred Lambert falling from the cruise ship is especially well done.)
Speaking of satirical children’s books: in the UK, Penguin has proven its humorlessness
by suing the author of
We Go to the Gallery
, a brilliant parody of the
Peter and Jane
series. One panel is seen above. The lawsuit avows that
We Go to the Gallery
“pollutes the idyllic brand of Ladybird books … their argument is now fundamentally moral, not legal, and as such is an act of senseless and repressive censorship.”
And speaking of questionable litigation: here’s
the history of late-night TV ads for unscrupulous lawyers
. “There was an era before ads like these were allowed—and a big bang after which they couldn’t be contained. And now, the legal world is in a subtle, possibly endless civil war over how attorneys should advertise their services (and whether they should advertise at all).”
Today in interspecies communication:
scientists can now translate dolphin whistles in real time
.
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