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"McCarthyism" has jumped the shark

I think it is safe to say that the term McCarthyism has moved beyond reasonable discourse (if it ever resided there). I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that it has come to simply mean unfair accusations but when the term is being used by baseball managers talking about suspicion of steroid use then it has [...]

Too Many Books?

Is there such a thing? Probably not. Nevertheless, I have been buying a lot of books lately. This is the sort of addiction for me that if I don’t restrain myself I seem to get worse and worse. Money used to be a big restraint but is becoming less so. What really brings it to [...]