Jonah Goldberg is a great writer and an even better researcher. In this book, which I will quote often in maxim posts, he goes down the rabbit hole chasing Donald Trump and ends up far from his origin...Read More
The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of moral crisis maintain their neutrality. Roughly quoting Dante and variously misquoted by JFK, Teddy Roosevelt and others I found it in...Read More
“The surest fertilizer of a movement is the blood of martyrs.” Bernard DeVoto The Year of Decision 1846 This a great book about the Polk administration. The war with Mexico, the Donner...Read More
On our drive from Santa Fe to visit the Pecos Pueblo we visited the Carnegie Library in Las Vegas, New Mexico. It was Sunday so the library was closed but as we drove up the sky cleared and I got th...Read More
Do you have an eReader of some kind? A Kindle, an iPad or a Nook? Then you will probably know what I’m talking about in this post. EBooks don’t have real pages so the intuitive feel yo...Read More
“Apologies are cheap and effective all out of proportion to their cost. Carry them like a roll of bills in your hip pocket and pass them out freely.” Nat Jaffe in Telegraph Avenue a Nove...Read More
I just finished reading Terry Pratchett’s new book Dodger on my Kindle. It was a great read and like all of Pratchett’s books full of pithy humor and word play. Highly recommended! H...Read More