Consider the Author. cherylcline, der Blaustrumpf (2011-04-27). Here's a short list of major American writers whom electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) has failed to save:  Sylvia Plath, Ernest Hemingway, David Foster Wallace.  The latter two ended their lives very shortly after treatment.  Plath and Wallace were also on and off antidepressants, a class of medications acknowledged even by the… (Linked Wednesday 2011-04-27.)

A Joshua King Ingalls update. Shawn P. Wilbur, Two-Gun Mutualism & the Golden Rule (2011-04-25). Last week, a colleague provided me with copies of Josiah Warren’s articles “To the Friends of the Social System,” which appeared in the Western Tiller, and that put me back into bibliographic mode, since the Warren/equitable commerce bibliography has been hovering somewhere just short of publishable for a long time… (Linked Wednesday 2011-04-27.)

If You Love Big Bird, Set Him Free. Jesse Walker, Jesse Walker: Reason Magazine articles and blog posts. (2011-04-27). The good news for public broadcasters is that Congress has failed to defund them. The budget deal reached earlier this month didn't include the House Republicans' rider to remove all subsidies to National Public Radio Inc., let alone the earlier proposal to zero out the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The… (Linked Wednesday 2011-04-27.)