Sunday, January 03, 2010

New Decade, New Domain

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I'm taking this party over to www.brianjnoggle.com/blog . Everyone update your bookmarks and blogrolls. And by "everyone," ...
Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Book Report: Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (Classics Club Edition)

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This book collects a large number of Marcus Aurelius' thoughts about life as a Stoic. Marcus Aurelius, for those of you who don't k...
Monday, December 28, 2009

Book Report: Jem by Frederik Pohl (1979)

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This is not a book about the action figure . Unfortunately. It's a 1979 dark novel about power politics and national and bloc-level c...
Saturday, December 26, 2009

Book Report: The Darwin Awards II by Wendy Northcutt (2000)

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It's been five years since I read the next volume in the series ( The Darwin Awards 3 , wherein the numbering went Arabic instead of Rom...

Book Report: "One Moment, Sir!" Cartoons from the Saturday Evening Post selected by Marione R. Nickles (1957)

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Well, I've read another book of cartoons to make my annual total more impressive. Also, it's a handy book to read when you're w...
Tuesday, December 22, 2009

How Will That Play To The Tea Party Crowd?

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You know the tea party people, the ones who take off of work to travel to Washington, D.C., to protest? The ones who skip lunches to march ...
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A Is A: The Law of Identity

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Things act according to their natures. The scorpion and the frog. Anyone familiar with these could have foreseen this : One of the bigg...
Monday, December 21, 2009

Book Report: When's Later, Daddy? by Bil Keane (1974)

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Yes, I did read another book of 1960s and 1970s cartoons to make my annual quota of 100 books. Well, what would you do? I guess some Fami...
Sunday, December 20, 2009

Book Report: TV Babylon by Jeff Rovin (1984)

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Consider this book to be the antidote to the little elementary school books about 1980s television stars that I've read before ( TV Supe...