"The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter." —Mark Twain
Gosh, it’s been a long time since Donna and I took a long car trip. We spent Labor Day weekend in Winter Park, Colorado, driving there and back. To prove we did it, here are three photos from our trip: We really have to do this more often!
I’ve been away, attending a weekend hashing event in Colorado, shirking my duties as a blogger. We’re only just home . . . still unpacking, in fact . . . so this entry will be disorganized and short. Passing through Albuquerque last Thursday on our drive north, I heard on the radio that some New […]
The stupid, it burns: This is what’s on a band T-shirt being rounded up by the local school board in Sedalia, Missouri, after parents complained. Typical of the complaints is one by Sherry Melby, parent of a marching band member: “I was disappointed with the image on the shirt.” Melby said. “I don’t think evolution […]
The media occasionally report on Christian evangelicalism and proselytization in the military services, particularly at the military academies. One journalist who tracks stories about non-believing and minority religion servicemembers coerced into Christian worship is Ed Brayton, who blogs about this and other issues at Dispatches from the Culture Wars. Last week he published a letter […]
Oh for Christ’s sake. Back in April, President Obama signed a law establishing September 11 as an annually recognized “National Day of Service and Remembrance.” Reaction on the right? Uh, about what you’d expect: The Obama White House is behind a cynical, coldly calculated political effort to erase the meaning of the Sept. 11, 2001 […]
“You’re gonna need a bigger boat.” — Roy Scheider, Jaws (1975) Quantum of Solace (2008) I think Daniel Craig is a great Bond, potentially better even than Sean Connery, but as other reviewers have complained, this movie is too similar to the Bourne trilogy (Bourne Identity/Bourne Supremacy/Bourne Ultimatum) to really have the feel of a […]
“A screaming comes across the sky.” – Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow (1973) Ritual, by Mo Hayder Okay detective thriller with a written-for-TV feel, entertaining but ultimately forgettable. I was far more impressed with Mo Hayder’s The Devil of Nanking. Pig Island, by Mo Hayder Still under the influence of The Devil of Nanking, I went […]