I can’t be objective about The Art of Racing in the Rain, because as my family knows my critical faculties are permanently suspended where dogs are concerned. Nevertheless, if the thought of a dog as narrator does not make you run for the hills, give it a shot. I enjoyed it very much.
NIW writes about the less-than-classy behavior of the people at her daughter’s high school graduation ceremony. For example:
The couple directly behind me talked through the entire ceremony — at least until the time when they got up and walked out (early) as soon as their child walked across the stage to receive his diploma. [...]
Greg Saunders at This Modern World has it exactly right. The nut graf:
Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and all of the other Democratic candidates competed under the same rules and Clinton lost. Now she’s trying to work the refs and is trying to change any rules that might keep her from winning. That’s understandable, but [...]
Having a lovely time on Graph Jam!
The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America, by David Hadju
Criticisms of comic books back in the day sound EXACTLY like criticisms of violent video games (e.g. Grand Theft Auto IV) today.
Little Brother, by Cory Doctorow
Geeks simply cannot resist the temptation to lecture about their enthusiasms. It doesn’t make [...]
Americans waste 27% of “the food available for consumption.”
Of course, eliminating food waste won’t solve the problems of world hunger and greenhouse-gas pollution. But it could make a dent in this country and wouldn’t require a huge amount of effort or money. The Department of Agriculture estimated that recovering just 5 percent of the food [...]
Pastor Dan shares yesterday’s sermon on Genesis 1:1 ff:
We are almost overrun by all the goodness and abundance in Genesis. We have more than we could ever imagine or ask for from God, and we’re only two pages into the Bible!
Of course, this is not the way we perceive things. If you ask us, [...]
I myself happen to love cilantro, but this still made me laugh: a page of haikus devoted to despising it.
I once had a hilarious lunchtime conversation about food preferences with some fellow geeks (we ended up drawing a chart, of which one column was labeled “Contaminants”; several people placed cilantro in that column) which [...]
To a children’s musical production tonight at one of my kid’s fundamentalist buddy’s church. We’ve been there several times before, so I know what to expect, but yet I’m always annoyed at how much they seem to value conformity.
I tried to work through my stuff in real time, though, and came to some peace [...]
