Dan (as usual, starting from A Position of Ignorance, and not often enough for my taste) is musing on some ideas for games. He has a fine idea for a central aspect of the game’s strategy, but is looking for…
Once again, judging a book by its cover has paid off, as I picked up The Autobiography of God, by Julius Lester, due to the startling title and the cover’s appearance of being a torah mantle, with Hebrew letters embroidered…
Nathan Newman has been writing about the courts, evolution, science, intelligent design, and various things that may well be of interest to Gentle Readers. He has a few points that I think are hard to argue and good to note….
Are you ever, Gentle Reader, as you pass through a parking lot glancing at all the magnetically affixed declarations on the back end of the cars, seized with a mischievous impulse to swap ’em all around? I don’t mean making…
Since I no longer hold a copy of the Chronicle in my hand as I ride the BART, but read it on-line, I tend to go back and read Jon Carroll’s columns in bursts of four or five, rather than…
Your Humble Blogger was listening to the BBC this morning, and was surprised to find out that the commission looking in to the fire on the Sabarmati Express which sparked the awful riots in Gujarat two years ago has decided…
I’m sure that my Gentle Readers all have ways to commemorate Martin Luther King Day, each to his own. I think that it could be a mistake to focus too specifically on the man himself, rather than on the issues…
The question is not whether it was or was not a good idea for our government to spend seven million dollars trying to figure out how to make enemy soldiers too hot for each others bods to attend to our…
In purchasing books for our recent vacation, my Best Reader picked up The Wind Singer, based on who knows what combination of whim, inside knowledge, and cover-judging. Luckily, it turns out that the book is terrific, and that I fully…
The thing about library book sales is that I somehow feel that I am obliged to buy something, or more that buying something is a Good Deed. Not that it makes any sense—the ten cents I gave them for a…