Happy Hump Day..... let's start off the day with a Carl Sandburg poem that a volunteer at the University of Illinois discovered this year while indexing the Sandburg collection.

Prose Before Hos: When Privacy Jumped the Shark

Channel Surfing: Racial Bias and the Canard of Self Defense

PersonalLibertyDigest: Snowden Becomes Long Shot For Nobel Prize

And finally, a big round of applause for the blog roundup's creator, Mike Finnigan, on the Phantom Blues Band's induction into the Blues Hall of Fame. Congrats Mr. Finnigan!

Round up by Swimgirl.(tweeter @miamiswimmer) Send tips to mbru AT crooksandliars DOT com