Hot Money is the inheritance one. It’s one of my favorites, although I’m not sure why. There’s no romance at all, and although our hero does get a bit roughed up a bit, he doesn’t show the kind of perseverance…
It has come to Your Humble Blogger’s attention that not all Gentle Readers are familiar with George Orwell’s essay on A Nice Cup of Tea. Y’all will remember that I have little use for Mr. Orwell’s ideas, but I do…
Gentle Readers will remember that I was knocked out loaded by Never Let Me Go. Seriously. Very Good Book. Second time through a Very Good Book is a delicate thing. I am inclined to be a bit tentative. Foreshadowing, although…
Your Humble Blogger is late with the Book Reports. Yep. It’s been almost a month since I wrote one, and even with the amount of physical energy I’ve been using, I have read, let’s see, eight books since then. At…
Your Humble Blogger read an op-ed by Rosa Brooks in yesterday’s Hartford Courant. The Courant headlined it Bad Reasons To Stay – Or Go. It was reprinted from the Los Angeles Times, who had called it Clear-eyed questions about Iraq….
So. The Philadelphia Phillies lost their 10,000th game. It was bound to happen eventually. Gentle Readers may not be aware that baseball fans, when they talk about a pitcher with a great many losses on his record, will say that…
YHB’s Gracious Host today asked about Mental Age, that is, “how old do you think of yourself as being, and how different is that (if at all) from what the calendar tells you?” After thinking about it for a while,…
I had thought that Rome Reborn would be pretty darned cool. It’s a three-dimensional model of Rome, as of June 21, 320 (c.e.), including some seven thousand buildings, some of which have detailed exteriors and interiors. And, you know, it…
One criticism of Our Only President back when he was just One Candidate for the Republican Party’s Nomination was that he was … intellectually incurious. On the other hand, he spoke fluent Spanish! Or, well, no, he didn’t really. Anyway,…
In case Gentle Readers missed it, here’s the quote of the, well, of the quote, via FP’s Passport: UK military spokesman Major Mike Shearer said: “We can categorically state that we have not released man-eating badgers into the area.” From…