¶ Matins: Over the weekend, Times columnists Charles Blow and Frank Rich made one thing clear: the white Christian teabaggers who want “their country” back can’t have it, now or ever.

Like Mr Rich, we’re hardly comfortable with any of this. It makes us worry about what we call “the Searchers Option.”

¶ Lauds: Jazz and rock photographer Jim Marshall died last week. At The Online Photographer, Mike Johnston reviews the monographs, in and out of print.

¶ Prime: When we saw David Segal’s piece in the Times about “Day Traders 2.0: Wired, Angry and Loving It,” we were embarrassed. Is this Brides Magazine, where the same articles get trotted out at periodic intervals? Tyler Durden thinks so.

¶ Tierce: Daniel Lametti’s “How to Erase Fear — in Humans” is unfortunately titled, because it will be a long time before anyone develops a practice for erasing real-life fear in humans. But we find the concept of reconsolidation amazingly on. Every time you remember something, you recreate, reconstitute — reconsolidate — the memory. No wonder &c! (Scientific American; via 3 Quarks Daily)

¶ Sext: The pregnant futurism of the letter R. “Sound poetry“? Headsets recommended. (triplecanopy; via The Morning News)

¶ Nones:  A lament by Ewen MacAskill about the “Special Relationship Partnership” between the UK and the US. (Guardian) 

¶ Vespers:  On the need to believe that Shakespeare didn’t write Shakespeare: The Economist reviews James Shapiro’s Contested Will. The unsigned review makes at least one important point about the history of literary appreciation. 

¶ Compline: Merrill Markoe, at least, knows where to find a laugh as the country breaks in two. (Speakeasy)

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