Austin Allen has a lovely post on Madeline L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time up at Big Think:...
Month: January 2012
On the Mindless Diversions blog, resolute commenter Teacher asks: Know anyone with good experience self publishing? So…...
“The captain says the ship hit a reef that was not on the navigation charts.”
If you’re not watching the 49er/Saints game right now.
As told in my comment on the League’s What is Your Sputnik Moment thread, I don’t like...
(Of course, you don’t *HAVE* to talk about the Broncos or the Patriots.)
Responding to my demurrer to “the old saw that Americans are ideologically conservative but operationally liberal,” Yeggmen...
In preparation for our planned excursion, go here and download and listen to the song “Meet Me...
At my sub-blog, I have completed the third of my “Great Cases” series of posts. This installment...
In the recent thread on Huntsman , BlaiseP, Tom van Dyke and I ended up in a...
Ta-Nehisi Coates believes persons of color ought to take ownership of the Civil War. This is a...
Last night, I watched the anti-Romney 30-minute “documentary” from a Gingrich Super PAC, “King of Bain,” and...
I have been reading about scarfing plywood for as long as I’ve been building boats, but I’ve...
Timothy B. Lee reads and comments on Jane Jacobs’ excellent, enigmatic, thought-provoking book.
In response to Mike’s emergency preparedness post, BlaiseP discusses the role of community in emergencies and specifically...
Because I’m behind the times (the Internet times, that is—they move so fast and I’m already stuck...
In June 2008 David Hawpe of the Courier Journal wrote an interesting piece asking “Where should we focus,...
This is just a short note to say that we are now very likely to attend the...
My family and I started ‘prepping‘ this past year. For the unaware this means creating food, equipment and...
In light of Rufus’s most recent post, I came across this serendipitous passage in the book I’m...
