Kevin Murphy, author of the long-running site Ghost in the Machine, provides an excellent perspective on the history and possible future of the American progressive movement in these two posts. For those of you interested in history, politics, and actual understanding of a complex topic, I highly recommend taking the time to read them. To [...]
Wordie, a terrific little site deserving a post of its own, just published a list of “25 Gifts for Wordinistas“. If you have a word fan on your shopping list and are looking for a little something (or a big something), check John’s list. There are several items that your humble host would love to [...]
Anyone with a few thousand purposeless dollars and some serious love for your humble host should feel free to buy me this steampunk Victorian laptop. I would love to have it on my desk in my office. Share/Bookmark
I’ve been following this Thanksgiving tradition for so long that my original angry bitterness about the state of this country — and the way its supposed leaders have sold out the American Dream for television ratings and bumper stickers — has morphed into a weary, cynical resignation. But I haven’t yet abandoned all hope, so [...]
Four weeks into this cold it is finally showing signs of fading, even if it has not yet released my concentration from captivity. Please enjoy these complimentary Sunday morning coffee links. We hope they will amuse and enlighten you. Pez Sweet World: uniquely modified Pez dispensers. Many are funny, some are sad, a few are [...]
The WGA strike is continuing without relief in sight. A lot of people don’t really know what it is about, and I’ve been a little surprised by the number of people who have made comments about rich, greedy writers. This is weird to me. Are there really that many people laboring under the misconception that [...]
This is interesting. Local blogger Frances Nash, long a member of the Hidden City link list, isn’t actually real. She’s the protagonist of the new book Total Constant Order by author Crissa-Jean Chappell. According to Chappell she started the journal while she was working on the novel, and now that it is published she has [...]