On the Futility of Post-Retirement Christmas Letters

I don’t mean this in any sort of down way, but I’m finally coming to realize that when you’re retired, with the kids grown and gone, settled down in the house you plan to stay in until they pry it from your cold dead fingers, there’s not a lot you can put into an annual […]

Paul’s Book Reviews: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope, by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer Several months ago a marketing director at HarperCollins read one of my book reviews. She contacted me to ask if I would read and review an advance copy of The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, and of […]

After This, I’m Going to Need a Moral Shower

Sarah shows her true colors again.  From Ben Smith at Politico (posted yesterday, December 3rd): Speaking to the conservative talker Rusty Humphries today, Sarah Palin left the door open to speculation about President Obama’s birth certificate. “Would you make the birth certificate an issue if you ran?” she was asked [ . . . ] […]