Female Offspring Unit #2 is settled in Nairobi with a sweet family headed by a local pastor there. She hit the ground running and has been too busy to even think about being homesick. The apartment complex in which her host family lives is modern and, by her eyewitness report, “very cute.” But there is […]
Behold, the wisdom of the common Californian: “. . .and we can be rich in, um, cotton, and mining metals, and . . . silkworms . . .”
Then just increase your “psychological distance” silly! So says the latest findings in the field of “construal level theory.”
Whoopie Golberg has joined the Apollo 11 “truthers!” She has questions.
July 20, 1969. I’m nine years old and on the backside of the first of what would turn out to be the three “best summers ever.” On this night, I get a special dispensation to stay up past my bedtime to watch Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin take a walk. Like countless other kids (and […]
Even sicker than you think. Mark Steyn at The Corner points us to this report from journalist Sabina Amidi about an Iranian prison guard with some problems with his conscience: He said he had been a highly regarded member of the force, and had so “impressed my superiors” that, at 18, “I was given the […]
As he often does, James Lileks wrote something last night that almost perfectly articulates something I think, but have never expressed. In this case, it is the dichotomy that is Tom Hanks. As an aside when mentioning that he was re-watching HBO’s “John Adams,” Lileks wrote: Now and then I hear Mr. Hanks say something […]
Dear readers, The response to my request a few weeks ago for help in the form of book reviews over at Amazon has been stunning. Just not in a good way. By way of reminder, I wrote: If you’ve ordered and read the Paul Harvey book, would you be so kind as to go to the […]
Forecast says only 104 today. A couple of days ago the high hit 107, although the shaded thermometer on my back porch was reading 111. I know this because that would be the thermometer right by the gas grill where Mrs. Blather had me grilling chicken for dinner. I should have conserved propane and just […]
Some dear friends have graciously offered to host a book signing party this Thursday night in their Grapevine, Texas home. If you live in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, I would be thrilled and appreciative to see you there. It’s “come and go.” If you have already purchased the book, bring it and I’d be honored […]
