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Book Review: The Anti-American Manifesto by Ted Rall

Years ago the professor in my political ideologies class laid out a view of the political spectrum that I’ve never forgotten. It does not, he said, resemble a line with a far left, a far right and a center. Instead, it is a nearly closed circle where the extremes of the spectrum are turning back […]

Book Review: Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So by Mark Vonnegut

There are certain books you read during your life that stick with you. For me, one of those is one I first read while still in college, Mark Vonnegut’s The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity. First published in 1975 (and reissued in 2002), the book is a frank and compelling story of a young […]

Weekend Edition: 10-2

Dude, You Killed a Dell!

True, unfortunately. Tuesday morning I spilled a beverage on my less than two month old work laptop, frying both the motherboard and the hard drive. Fortunately, our IT guy had not yet blown away my old one so I didn’t have to start from scratch. The carcass is on its […]

Banned Books Week in review

There’s been quite a bit of coverage of Banned Books Week in the blogosphere and the mainline media. As the week comes to a close, I thought it worthwhile to post links to a few of my favorite bits this year:

Is it censorship if the government buys all the copies of a book and […]

October Bibliolust

Some actual progress on the lust front, with nine books read in September. It’s always good when the number of books read in a month exceed the number lusted after books for that same month.

I’m thinking this may be another good month. Even though the fall publishing season is here, so far I haven’t […]