Gentle Reader, how many times have you asked yourself “Who really is the best scientist ever?” And did you then realize, Gentle Reader, that you have absolutely no knowledge base that would help you answer that question? Well, how about…
When I read the Mister Monday, the first in the Keys to the Kingdom series by Garth Nix, I enjoyed it, more or less, but wasn’t knocked out. Sometime this summer, I bought the second, Grim Tuesday. My recollection was…
One of the things about being a pundit-type blogger (rather than the livejournal type, you know) is that I feel it incumbent upon me to live up to stereotype, that is, to respond to the latest news story. In this…
Well, and it looks like it isn’t Donald Rumsfeld who is being rewarded for incompetence. And, I mean, clearly Condoleezza Rice has tremendous experience in diplomacy. Or at least as much as Colin Powell had. The good news is that…
So, on Saturday, we talked about Parshah Toldot, Genesis 25:19-28:9. It was a fun discussion, very lively, although now I find there wasn’t much memorable about it. I do remember our ardent feminist saying that if Rebecca had told Isaac…
Bar-ry! Bar-ry! Bar-ry! We’re not worthy! That is all. Thank you,-Vardibidian….
So, Secretary Powell is out. He wasn’t a very good Secretary of State, but then it would have been surprising, given his history and the circumstances, if he had been. The Cabinet shake-up is more or less usual on heading…
Every time I read The Chosen it seems like a different book. The first time, it was a book about two boys and their friendship. The second, probably, it was about the study of Talmud and its place is in…
I don’t now remember how I first came to pick up Vita and Harold: The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson off the library shelf in 1992 or 1993. I suspect I was just interested in collections of letters…
Well, and the rules of the Oscars Game are up, and there’s less than two weeks to decide to play. The more the merrier, at least a lot more than we currently have, so belly up to the bar, boys…