I wasn’t feeling well last night and so I took a sick day today. I slept in late (until 10 AM, which is very late for me these days) and I felt a little better when I woke up. I have mixed feelings about sick days. On the one hand, I think it’s important that…
I keep reading (and hearing) in the news that the government did nothing illegal when requesting phone records, and other sort of spying on Americans. That is probably true, and while I don’t have evidence for it, I’ll take that at face value. Because to me, that’s not the point. There are lots of things…
I finished George Burns’ Living It Up less than 24 hours after I started it. It is quite possibly the funniest book I’ve ever read. I think I didn’t laugh on page 109, but on every other page in the book, I was nearly in tears. This is not hyperbole. This morning I took my…
As most political scientists, or anyone with common sense for that matter, knows, freedom and security are opposing forces. The freer a nation, the less secure; the more secure, the less free. Finding the balance is not always easy. A balance is important, but when that balance starts to tip the scales against what freedom…
I’m through the first six pages of Living It Up and I have been laughing almost constantly. I have a feeling this book is going to be tough on my abdominals…
I think I may have found the perfect sandwich. For the last three days, eschewing my normal routine of packing my lunch (I neglected to buy groceries when I got back from L.A.), I have gone down to the Au Bon Pan in the mall below my office building and ordered a “custom” sandwich from…
I finally finished In Joy Still Felt this evening, after nearly 2 weeks of reading it. As always, it was a great book, one of my favorites, as are all of Isaac Asimov’s autobiography volumes, and once again I was sad to have it finished. The next two books I’m sneaking in because I simply…
…not just the fact that they lost 2 out of 3 to the Red Sox, but that on the second play of the game, Matsui broke his wrist diving for a ball. He’s likely out 3 months, if not the whole season. And this puts an end to his remarkable 518 consecutive game playing streak.…
We here in the Metro DC area are under a tornado watch until 11 PM. It’s been raining pretty darn hard and the DirecTV went out right before Smallville was supposed to start, but it just came back on. Whew!