Category: Open Threads

The Bookworm Beat — 9/2/2014 Quick, Down, & Dirty edition

I’ve got about 30 tabs open. They’re memory hogs, so I want to share their contents with you as quickly as possible so that I can shut them down and look for more stuff. Hold onto your hats, ’cause this is going to be quick: Voices inside administration challenge Obama’s

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The Bookworm Beat — 8/26/14 mid-day edition (and Open Thread)

Years ago, during the Bush administration, James Taranto read a despairing AP article in which the Progressive author opined that “everything is seemingly spinning out of control.” Taranto loved that phrase and used it to preface any link to crazy things, or things that made Progressive’s crazy. That phrase keeps wandering

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The Bookworm Beat — August 22, 2014 mid-day edition edition

Climate change hysteria will make you crazy We all know that it’s wrong to laugh at those who are mentally ill, but doesn’t it seem like there should be an exception for those whose particular mental illness takes the form of aggressive, obsessive climate change mania? Tim Blair’s brilliant fisking

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Open Thread Part II

I finished the Koontz book (it was excellent) but now, rather than writing, I’m completely caught up in getting the kids to all their “school starts tomorrow” activities, such as orientations, sports try outs, last-minute school supply shopping etc. Tomorrow will be an exquisite day. I expect to have the

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The Bookworm Beat — August 16 Saturday Night Special

Yesterday, the phone or the doorbell rang every 10-20 minutes all afternoon and evening. We had a rotating cast of characters for dinner, one of my dogs hid for the day, and the other dog barked itself into laryngitis. I have no complaints, as I like a social house, but

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