If I believe Time magazine, I’m an illiterate bum. All-TIME 100 Best Nonfiction Books Politics and war, science and sports, memoir and biography — there’s a great big world of nonfiction books out there just waiting to be read. We picked the 100 best and most influential written in English since 1923, the beginning of …
First to secede, last to arrive in the 21st century. From Kos: 57% of South Carolina Republicans said they do not believe in evolution, while 32% say they do. Just 25% believe global warming is real. Kos gets that from the most recent poll (.pdf) of South Carolina Republicans by Public Policy Polling. Former Congressman …
Rick Perry gets endorsement from James Inhofe. Inhofe shares in Perry’s skepticism regarding climate change, having repeatedly called global warming “the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people” and has argued the globe is moving into a “cooling period,” a theory Perry supported in his book “Fed Up!” “He won’t cave in to the …
One of the characters in Alistair MacLean’s Ice Station Zebra says cautiously over the internal intercom system, after the submarine has bumped into an ice stalactite or the ice sheet or something, “we still attached to the ship?” Yo, East Coasters, you still attached to the continent?
Two historical facts I got from reading Dan Okrent’s Last Call about Prohibition: 1. Congress didn’t reapportion House legislative districts after the Census of 1920 because for the first time there were more Americans in cities than in rural districts. The Drys dominated the rural districts and were afraid that a) they’d lose seats and …
I don’t care whether it’s a Category One, Two or Three, that’s a helluva lot of wind and rain inside that thing. Listen to the authorities and evacuate if you’re told to.
Wow. Just wow. GOP Congressmen Put Constituents Who Asked Tough Questions On A ‘Watch List’ Think Progress takes note of a handout Working America found which shows photos of citizens “the media” should ask questions of if the citizens turn up at town hall meetings. For example, a man named Don Parsell should be asked: …
From Events I’ve been crumbling and frizzling Italian sausage to top pizza with, but I wasn’t much in the mood to wrestle with pizza dough tonight. I wondered what else I could do with the sausage. That’s it, combined with quartered red potatoes, wedges of yellow onion, and a julienned red pepper baked at 450° …
I’m taking a break from Falco because I realized my library wants Last Call back on Tuesday. It’s the story of the movement which imposed Prohibition on the United States, what happened during that period, and how it was repealed. It’s full of fascinating stories about the people who built the movement, principally the Anti-Saloon …
Writing of the Republican party’s sudden dislike of the payroll tax cut currently in effect but due to expire in January, Harold Myerson of the WaPo slams the stance the WSJ editorial pages have taken: The payroll tax cut, which the Journal dismisses so contemptuously, benefits every employed American, while the tax cuts the paper …