Every time I read something worth blogging about, I keep it open in a separate Firefox tab until I get around to it. I don't always get around to it in a prompt manner, so here's some interesting reads from the past week or so, so I can close some of these tabs.

• Sci-Fi author Ray Bradbury says that millions of English teachers are wrong. The education establishment has, for the past 50 years or so, declared Bradbury's most popular work, "Fahrenheit 451," as a treatise against government censorship. Instead, Bradbury says, the book is squarely aimed at the idiot box. Back to to the drawing board on that teaching curriculum.
• John Leo writes about various student free speech cases. The Poway/Harper case makes an appearance.
• The Islamic Society of Boston sues a bunch of its detractors for libel, then discovers that truth is an absolute defense to that charge..
• The New York Times' John Tierney takes on Rachel Carson's legacy on DDT. He's got some follow-up blog posts here and here.