In case any one was wondering, I am alive and well up here in Northern Minnesota. I am spending a week of vacation with my in-laws and sister in-law. They live in Grand Rapids, MN. It is quite cold here and there is a good amount of snow. Which is exactly what my wife wanted. [...]
Sorry for the lack of posting and the lack of warning but I am on vacation in Northern Minnesota. I will return to posting when I return to Ohio on Sunday. I have been reading feverishly so I will have a number of reviews to post when I return. Please check back then.
With Cat in the Hat making a splash at the box office, John Miller takes a look at the political ramifications of Dr. Seuss. While recognizing that Theodore Seuss Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss, was a liberal and that his stories mostly reflected that, Miller offers his choice as a favorite: My favorite Seuss book is [...]
Living in Columbus Ohio and being a Michigan fan has its ups and downs. One of the downs is that you have to put up with blanket coverage of the Buckeyes and “Michigan Week” in particular. Most of this is not sports coverage so much as mindless blather about the Big Game. The ups are [...]
I know that biography is often seen as the red-headed step child of history but I find them fascinating. If you do too, Human Events has come out with a list of Ten American Biographies Everyone Should Read. They had a scholarly panel vote and here is what they came up with: 1. The Education [...]
I just wanted to take a moment to thank everyone for visiting this humble site. This month has broken the previous record for visits and we still have a week or so to go. I really appreciate all of you who stop by, please come back and leave a comment of two so I know [...]
Golden Boy Jim Tressel can’t seem to keep the bad boys at OSU from acting up as Two Buckeyes have been charged with disorderly conduct: Two Ohio State football players have been charged with disorderly conduct following a fight last weekend outside a dorm near Ohio Stadium. Starting wide receiver Santonio Holmes and kick returner [...]
***I posted this over at Collected Miscellany but thought it was worth posting here as well. If like books and ideas you should be checking in regularly over at my new site. Interesting dichotomy laid out in this book review in the current issue of National Review (sub. req.). In her review of Michael Know [...]
Interesting dichotomy laid out in this book review in the current issue of National Review (sub. req.). In her review of Michael Know Beran’s Jefferson’s Demons : Portrait of a Restless Mind, Sarah A. Bramwell lays out Beran’s thesis: Beran begins by identifying two human types, the “Whig” and the “Tory.” Broadly speaking, the Whig [...]
Update: Gender misidentification corrected. Wierd confession on MediaBistro by first time novelist Allison Burnett. Burnett apprently got caught up in his Amazon ratings and sales traffic to the point he aggrevated a reviewer and created a backlash: Whether the Blitzkrieg that followed was the work of Jack alone, using a host of aliases, or of [...]