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Month: February, 2009

Best-Loved Chinese Proverbs by Theodora Lau

Sometimes books I read or receive just get lost in the hustle and bustle of life. I am sure this never happens to you, but sometimes I just am not that organized. But I am trying this year to improve catch myself when books get lost.
One such book is Best-Loved Chinese Proverbs by [...]

Whiskey Sour for UM Fans in Columbus

This building is a block from my office: Via MGoBlog BTW, this will in no way stop me from enjoying Jeni’s amazing Maker’s Mark Buttered Pecan ice cream.

Whiskey Sour for UM Fans in Columbus

This building is a block from my office:

Via MGoBlog
BTW, this will in no way stop me from enjoying Jeni’s amazing Maker’s Mark Buttered Pecan ice cream.

From Exceptionalism to Statism

Michael Franc, in reviewing the president’s non-SOTU speech last night, captures the frustration I have with Barack Obama: We heard from a president with a moral compass every bit as sophisticated and powerful as Bill Bennett’s, and who possesses a remarkably subtle understanding of the American psyche, but who knows only one way to fit all [...]

From Exceptionalism to Statism

Michael Franc, in reviewing the president’s non-SOTU speech last night, captures the frustration I have with Barack Obama:
We heard from a president with a moral compass every bit as sophisticated and powerful as Bill Bennett’s, and who possesses a remarkably subtle understanding of the American psyche, but who knows only one way to fit all that [...]

Asta in the Wings by Jan Elizabeth Watson

When I first started reading Asta in the Wings I thought of another Tin House book Salvation by Lucia Nevai.  Both have central characters who are girls raised by less than ideal mothers and who are adopted by odd but caring surrogate mothers.  Both stories focus on the transition from one world to the next [...]

Zero-Tolerance Idiocy Continues

Image via Wikipedia The Columbus Dispatch has the details: A Northland High School student could be expelled after playing with a Nerf foam-dart gun in school. Devon Smith, 14, said he could not resist firing the toy at a friend after a classmate brought it to class. “He was shooting at another one of my [...]

Zero-Tolerance Idiocy Continues

Image via Wikipedia

The Columbus Dispatch has the details:
A Northland High School student could be expelled after playing with a Nerf foam-dart gun in school.
Devon Smith, 14, said he could not resist firing the toy at a friend after a classmate brought it to class.
“He was shooting at another one of my friends, and I moved [...]

BTW, I am not a big fan of Wol…

BTW, I am not a big fan of Wolfe http://tinyurl.com/cw4rgy

Re: Wolfe "It’s difficult to…

Re: Wolfe “It’s difficult to convey the full extent of the book’s slapdash character as the author leaps between ill-argued assertions…”