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Interesting things to read while I focus on this darn warn of 1812, which, let me tell you, has got me in knots. Writing battle scenes that stay interesting enough for a wide range of readers? Priceless.
Bookseller Chick has an interesting long post on the politics of being apolitical when it comes to selling books.
Sarah and Candy are talking about condoms and the difficulty of writing about them in the context of ... well, you can guess.
And following logically, there's this post from Salon's Broadsheet (you may have trouble getting to it, as Salon restricts some content to subscribers) about a guy on trial for rape who called his urologist as a witness for his defense. His claim is that he is too large to have committed the crime:
A urologist has shown the court a plastic model of a penis that supposedly approximates that of the defendant, Mischa Beutling. Beutling is 6-foot-7 and 240 pounds. His repli-cock, designed to simulate a semi-relaxed state, measured eight and a half inches in length by six and a half inches in girth. Yes. Girth.Earlier in the trial, the same urologist had testified that Buetling's penis is in the top 5 percent size-wise among his patients. Really? Who's in the top 1 percent?
Rape isn't funny, and I hope whoever is guilty of this crime is suitably punished. And then, when that has been taken care of, I reserve the right to come back and laugh my ass off thinking about this urologist on the stand with his props.