The TPM Café’s Book Club last week was discussing a book called Off Center: The Republican Revolution and the Erosion of American Democracy. The conversation was interesting and wide-ranging, but some of it, and particularly the comments, indulged in one…
Another note in a series on Is the American Dream Killing You? by Paul Stiles. OK, now to the really frustrating bits. Mr. Stiles wants, in a series of chapters on different kinds of problems that we can see from…
About a year ago or so, Your Humble Blogger happened on Volume One (Kapilavastu) of Osamu Tezuka’s Buddha, and enjoyed it, in a disorienting way. That was when I was living in a town with a really remarkable library (for…
Another note in a series on Is the American Dream Killing You? by Paul Stiles. The prologue put me off right away. It’s addressed in the second-person singular and purports to describe my life as an overwhelmingly stressful combination of…
I enjoyed Effendi more than I expected to, particularly since it appears to be the middle book of a trilogy. I don’t really know where it sits in the Specfic genre wars. I mean, there’s a lot of cyberpunk in…
Another note in a series on Is the American Dream Killing You? by Paul Stiles. The subtitle of the book is “How ‘The Market’ Rules Our Life’. Mr. Stiles doesn’t do a good job of defining what he means by…
Paul Stiles: Is the American Dream Killing You? This is another book that Your Humble Blogger obtained, pre-publication, through HarperCollins nifty FirstLook program. It’s a shame this one is so bad. I feel bad. It was free, and all. But…
Back when Julie Powell’s Julia Child project was a moderate big-deal blog, long ago, I did stop in and look at it. It was one of those blogs that looked interesting, but didn’t look entertaining enough to get bookmarked; there…
Your Humble Blogger finally saw De-Lovely. If y’all had forgotten, or more likely never heard, about De-Lovely, it was last year’s Cole Porter bio-pic, the one with Kevin Kline, the one that was trashed for using a variety of theatrical…
One of my new favorite blogs is Lawyers, Guns and Money; between the three bloggists, they have put together several posts that I have found both interesting and persuasive. Recently, David Watkins wrote about specious arguments from people who should…