This week marks a turning point in my football watching season. It will, to a large degree, determine whether the season ends well or ebbs away. First is tonight’s Pittsburgh versus San Francisco game on MNF. The Steelers’ season hangs in the balance. At 3-6, if they win tonight they not only show they have [...]
Intersting quote from Sunny Days in Heaven: People keep talking about the Patriot Act violating privacy, but can anything compare to what electonics companies are creating? The video phone is being used to take pictures up women’s skirts, in shower rooms, and so on ad infinitum. Big Brother is not the threat. It’s little brother [...]
The Literary Salon points us to this interesting article in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette about how book reviewers decide which books to review. The Literary Salon discusses the bias against self-published books but I wanted to take the issue in a different direction: what is this site all about anyways? Earlier I had posted a “Welcome [...]
Over-reaction and the meaning of words seem to be a theme around here lately. Edward Wasserman provides us with another example of over-reaction and the twisting of words with his reaction to the Reagan TV movie controversy. Personally, I found the whole flap with CBS a bit over the top, given that most TV movies [...]
To find a book today that is interesting, topical, and readable is a rare feat. The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad is just such a gem. After 9/11, and with the ongoing War on Terrorism, so much of the focus is on far away countries with unfamiliar cultures and unfathomable lives. Attempts to learn [...]