happy new year!

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what i’ve been reading

      
    
 
I read eighty-six books this year and here are ten that I’d recommend–there were more, of course, but ten seems reasonable. I decided not to include re-reads or books by my friends that I’ve already talked about on the blog.
All Aunt Hagar’s Children by Edward P. Jones.  Like Alice Munro, Jones can pack a [...]

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the modern world

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priests battle at nativity

“Greek Orthodox and Armenian priests attacked each other with brooms and stones inside the Church of the Nativity as long-standing rivalries erupted in violence during holiday cleaning on Thursday.” Religion builds character. (thanks to Don in Miami)

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merry christmas

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to live and die in dixie

The trailer for the movie is here: http://bfish.rzen.net/dixie/trailer.html 

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buzzwords 2007

From Sunday’s Times.  e-mail bancruptcy:What you’re declaring when you choose to delete or ignore a very large number of e-mail messages after falling behind in reading and responding to them. This often includes sending a boilerplate message explaining that old messages will never receive a personal, specific response. Although the Stanford law professor Lawrence Lessing [...]

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mr. fish

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carbon tax

At least one candidate is addressing the environment.  “You cannot be serious about acting on the urgent threat of global warming, about making us less captive to Middle East oil, or investing in renewable energy, unless you have a corporate carbon tax that eliminates the last incentive there is to pollute — that it’s cheaper.” [...]

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absinthe makes the heart grow

Absinthe is now legal in the U.S.  Have yourselves a green Christmas! (thanks to Bruce  in Hollywood)  

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