Bookworm Room

One of my favorite books ever is Paul Fussell’s The Great War and Modern Memory. (Just as a “by the way,” another wonderful Fussell book is Thank God for the Atom Bomb.)  In The Great War and Modern Memory, Fussell examines how the literary British upper-class men who participated in the British war wrote about [...]

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When I first saw the headline — “A $2.5 Million Libel Judgment Brings The Question : Are  Bloggers Journalists?” — I have to admit that I felt a bit queasy.  When I write something snide about President Obama, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, or any of the other prominent Democrats I routinely criticize at this site, [...]

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We all met Navy One when he was just one of us — a guy who wrote delightful, interesting comments on my blog.  When Navy One decided to try his hand at blogging, he took that same charm and . . . well, the rest is history, as The Mellow Jihadi, launched just this spring, [...]

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I’ve been following, although not blogging about, the story of CJ Grisham.  Briefly, he’s a milblogger who received accolades from the White House on down, both for his bravery in battle, and for the quality of his milblog reporting.  Recently, however, while living in Huntsville, he got into a wrangle with his kids’ school over [...]

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One of the things I’ve been meaning to tell all of you about for ages is the weekly National Journal poll that asks bloggers from the Left and the Right to comment on current affairs.  I know about it because I’m a participant.  My views, therefore, won’t surprise you. What’s fascinating, though, week after week [...]

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This is kind of cool — I’m on a list that Michelle Malkin heads!  The young man who runs the Enkay Blog has assembled a list of the top 100 female bloggers and I’m currently in there at number 78.  Of course, if this list gets more play (and he hopes it does and is [...]

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I’ve got a project, and pretty much exhausted myself writing this morning’s post (too much thinking, dammit!), so I’ll just give you links to some stories that caught my eye today. 1.  John Hawkin’s writes about five top conservative female bloggers and discusses how they face different challenges from their male peers (not that they’re [...]

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