Reading: Fellowship of the Ring, by JRR Tolkien Listening: A Winter’s Solstice, 1985; Holiday Songs and Lullabies, Shawn Colvin This is the first Christmas that I have stayed home in two years. The last Christmas I stayed home, home was… Read more
Harry Potter is all the rage, of course. Some people are happy about that and others aren’t. Crooked Dimwit is one of those who isn’t. Annoyed and exhausted by the Harry Potter hype, Crooked Dimwit argues that the media overstates Harry’s… Read more
I’m not really sure what made me think of this, but for some reason today I was thinking about I Dream of Jeannie. A couple of years ago I found this animated gif of Jeannie on the web and I saved it because I liked it. I liked the show a lot when I… Read more
Scary Thing #1 American Council of Trustees and Alumni I recently read an article in a newspaper about the way that Lynn Cheney and her organization, The American Council of Trustees and Alumni, is trying to shut down dissent about the “war”… Read more