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Fearless Predictions
Barak Obama is Time’s Man of The Year. Does this make me the first person to predict the Time Man of 08? If he wins if he loses, doesn’t matter he will be Time’s Man of the Year. I bet the cover design is already done.
A Giant Has Left Us
It is easy on days like this watching enormous egos clash over the presidency that we forget how insignificant the US Presidency can be. Few presidents have made a mark on history. But today we have lost a man A man who stood astride the 20th century like a colossus. A man whose pen was mightier than any of [...]
Reflections On Summer Reading
National Review did not invite me to join in on their summer reading symposium. http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZTdhY2M0NzMzNTVlY2RlNWNhZjM5M2RhNWI3ZDFhNmE= Clearly this was an oversight on their part so I have invited myself.
What’s the best political novel you’ve ever read? Why is it the best?
I suppose that would have to be Exodus by Leon Uris. The founding of the modern [...]
There’s another e-book product
Several years ago amazon.com had attempted to offer e-books in the pdf, lit, and some other formats. They stopped it because they said they was no market despite fictionwise.com and ereader.com doing a decent business with it.
When I went to view the link about Michael Yon’s book, A Moment of Truth in Iraq, that [...]
Soros pushes his book from Red China
# Book”: The New Paradigm for Financial Markets: The Credit Crash of 2008 and What It Means
# Author: George Soros
# Publisher: PublicAffairs
# Number Of Pages: 192
# Publication Date: 2008-05-19
# ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1586486837
# ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781586486839
George Soros explores the origins of the financial crisis causing an upheaval he believes is as serious [...]
The Shot Heard Round The World
I didn’t have a chance to read the poem Concord Hymn by Ralph Waldo Emerson on Patriot’s Day. I know I have it in the house in one poetry anthology or another but today I found it on wikipedia. Here it is:
By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled;
Here once the [...]
“militant atheism among scientists is truly creepy”
In 1852 Charles MacKay published in London his Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. MacKay began his preface: “In reading the history of nations, we find that, like individuals, they have their whims and their peculiarities; their seasons of excitement and recklessness, when they care not what they do. We find [...]
Liberal Fascism: Not Much Difference from Social-/Communism
In the End They All Kill Their Opponents
“In 1968, in a televised debate during the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, when American fascists were taking to the streets outside the studio, Gore Vidal slandered William F. Buckley Jr. as a “crypto-Nazi.” Vidal, a pagan, statist, and conspiracy theorist,had good reason to cast this charge [...]
From Hamlet to Gun Moll
Our Blogmaster commented about JK Rowling’s revelation that Dumbledore is gay. California was on fire at the time so I didn’t get a chance to post my own response. JKR has managed to diminish her own creation, she has turned Dumbledore from a character with a fatal flaw into a bimbo falling for a sweet talker. This [...]
Those who can do, those who can’t whine
American Heritage reviews Joseph Ellis book on the Founding Fathers. John Adams, George Washington, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, American Revolution, Valley Forge, Founding Fathers.
This statement in the review particularly caught my eye.
argument can be said to weave together the separate pieces of American Creation, it is that the founding generation had five central [...]
Note to J.K. Rowiing
Professor Albus Dumbledore is a fictional character! I read the books, so don’t add things post-publishing. Your stories are done. Now, stop pandering for what ever is your reason to the ‘gay’ movement.
BTW, Batman and Boy Wonder are fictional also.
Happy Constitution Day!
In suburban Chicago they will mark this day with an appearance by Abigail Adams. Daily Herald
The article erroneously describes Mrs Adams as the wife of John Quincy. She was of course the mother of Quincy and the wife of John. I assume that newspapers facing loss of subscribers fire the fact checkers first. [...]
We were lucky in 2000
Rod Wood, fellow blogger here (yet to post a bit of teasing) told me of his friend Jack Cashill. I went to Cashill website and discovered this novel he wrote in 1998 about the possible presidency of algore. I found this quote:
“An odd thing about bureaucrats, TJ surmised. When not behind a desk, [...]
to whom city hall destroys first they first made mad
Maverick and the Machine: Governor Dan Walker Tells His Story
by Dan Walker, Peggy Lang (Editor)
ISBN: 0809327562
Pub. Date: May 2007
Out of a dirt-poor, yellow-dog Democrat family in Texas, Dan Walker went up to Illinois to become a successful trial lawyer, business executive, and governor of Illinois and then to the fall that sent him to prison [...]
Is There an eKoran, yet?
A few weeks ago, I whined about J.K. Rowling’s constant refusal to distribute her Harry Potter books in the e-book format. The e-book formats allows me more freedom to read where it couldn’t be done before. the back-light allows for reading in a darken room; if you share a bedroom you don’t need to keep [...]
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