I’m reading Infidel, by Ayaan Hirsi Ali. I’m reading it on my SONY (not Amazon) eBook reader. As you probably already know, she’s kind of an amazing woman, and her life has been an amazing life. And as you probably already know, she made a film defending women’s rights in Islam (Submission) with a guy who was […]
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Am I the Last to Hear This?
Jimmy Carter shot his sister-in-law’s cat in order to “sting” it so that it wouldn’t catch a bird. But he killed it. [Thanks to Truth Plus Lies for the link.]
Oprah Can't Edit Me!
Shout it from the rooftops. Oprah cannot cannot cannot edit me. Oprah has no idea who I am, but I decided to join in solidarity with Chris Rose, whose new book isn’t supposed to be very good and will not be seen on Oprah. Read the article, which is funny and clever. In short, Oprah […]
The Entitled
Today, and other days this week, the name Michael Vick has played upon the lips of many of my Atlanta co-inhabitants. Everyone either knows or can find out easily why, so I won’t go into details except these two: 1. He’s an extremely talented and famous athlete. 2. He’s been accused of being deeply involved […]
Connected
I’m connected with Ulysses Grant because he read Mark Twain’s “Innocents Abroad,” and so have I. (He read it while traveling through the same areas that Twain had written about. I love the idea of doing that, but I’ve often found that I’ve read the appropriate book months after, or before, getting to the place […]
How Dare You Say Tushy in My House!
I would have thought that polite society goes only one way, which is down. That is, that over the years, more offensive words are allowable as people become used to them. For example, when I was growing up, no one said “ass” on tv, unless very specifically referring to a donkey. It just wasn’t done. […]
Shocking Truth
I’m as surprised as you are, but I returned the Sony Reader and asked for my money back. Amazing but true. In other news, I’ve just started reading “The Mighty and the Almighty,” by Madeleine Albright. Regardless of her politics, I think we can all agree that she’s smart, that she’s thought a lot about […]
Fahrenheit 451: All about the Boob Tube
In case you thought that Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 was about bookburning and censorship (you know, since it has all the bookburning and censorship in it), you’d apparently be wrong. He says that it was about TV. It was about his hatred of large-screen TVs, factiods over the news instead of real news, shallow TV knowledge […]
Extensions
I got an extension on filing my tax return. Or, that is, I applied for one. I assume it’ll be granted and I won’t have to think about it until October. I owed, and I paid what I think I owed. I also got (APPLIED FOR) an extension on a stupid mix-up involving the IRS […]
It's Funny Because It's (not) True
Alex Heard, in The New Republic, reports how David Sedaris makes up some of the stories that he presents as nonfiction. (Link) I like David Sedaris, but I have wondered whether some of his material is too good to be true. And I do think that being true is a big part of why his […]