Just remembered today in Philosophy that my university library gives me free access to Harper’s, my second-favorite after The New Yorker. Spent class happily trolling through old Harper’s Indexes.

• Salary ofthe White House’s new Director for Lessons Learned : $106,641
• Months that an Idaho man has checked out his library’s copy of The Joy of Gay Sex, to prevent others from seeing it : 7
• Number of additional copies that the library has received unsolicited since this was first reported : 7
• Amount it costs the U.S. Treasury to manufacture and distribute a penny: 1.4¢
• Rank of atheists among minorities whom Americans are least willing to allow their children to marry: 1