Oh, absolutely. Hitchens was always an excellent read. A great loss. I truly wish he was around to dissect the woke-ification of Western society.
Mike in Dayton
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Actually I like the moniker.
Names can be the start of a lifetime of conversations.
I once had a girlfriend named Dorothy. Her family called her Dot. Can you imagine?
And thanks for the tips! I just got a new (wonderful) reading lamp. (thanks @aangen)
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My son graduated this weekend and I saw he had this school-provided LED lamp that did multiple light temperatures and also had a Qi charger on it. I may get one myself. LEDs offer so many new possibilities…
This thing is da bomb. TaoTronics somethingerother.
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on Royko, it may be partially due to my Chicago roots. Started with Royko’s Boss from the 70’s.
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Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World–and Why Things Are Better Than You Think https://g.co/kgs/V5tiGq
A good read that summarizes how we can become biased by data placed out of context and many other things.
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My dad was 101st Airborne, 502nd & was in Bastogne with McAuliffe.
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Excellent book. Jefferson was a fascinating renaissance man in every sense of the word.
Meacham’s book on Andrew Jackson is equally as interesting.
Reading it for the third time. Whatever you think about Adam Smith, a treatise that changed the world. I extract more from it with every read.
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I just finished Lonesome Dove, which won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. I enjoyed it.
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Read all four in the series during COVID. Masterful to say the least. But I read in release order, which isn’t the chronological story order. Take heed!
Almost immediately re-read in proper order. I liked the guys that much.
The characters are wonderfully fleshed out. I understand getting attached to them.
The New Yorker, cover to cover every week without fail.
Are you enjoying it? Impressed?
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Very good book. I am now half way through the sequel “The Committed “ that was recently published. He is a very good writer.
Thank you, I have the book but have not yet read it.