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Book Review: Faith at War (2005)

Anyone who holds out hope about the near term in Iraq or the future of America’s relations with the Islamic world in general will find Faith at War depressing.

The book details the travels of Wall Street Journal foreign correspondent Yaroslav Trofimov to a dozen countries with large Muslim populations in the three years after […]

CD short takes: Legends edition

Solo Acoustic, Vol. 1, Jackson Browne — If you’ve missed Jackson Browne’s recent series of solo acoustic tours over the last couple, including a stop here in Sioux Falls in November 2003, this CD brings a slice of it into your living room or vehicle. Released on Browne’s own independent label, Inside Recordings, the disc […]

Lengthy marginalia

Although I’ve moved from PC hell to PC purgatory (my Catholic upbringing is showing), I remain far behind on a variety of things. So here’s a link version of a number of items, several of which were initially intended for longer posts. More substantive posting to resume shortly.

As a follow-up to my illiterati post, […]

PC Hell

Little posting cause I’ve been in PC hell.

Figured it was time to move from my old Compaq Win98SE desktop so bought a new Compag desktop at Best Buy this past week. All the bells and whistles, 1GB memory, 250GB hard drive, XP Profesional, etc., etc. Even started planning ahead on getting software, etc., moved […]

Reinforcing my status as an illiterati

The finalists for the National Book Awards were announced today. If literati means being part of literary intelligentsia, the finalist list evidently makes me an illerati.

I have not read any of the finalists in fiction or poetry. Of the five non-fiction finalists, 102 Minutes still sits on the “to be read” shelf by the […]