I am not sure how “Michael Blowhard” at 2Blowhards ever manages to blog so much and still have a life– not just links, but full-blown essays. Here is one on naps (can’t live without one after lunch). And here is one on– more or less against– the modern “literary”, more than genre, novel. To my …
Author: Steve Bodio
Bigotry
A nice quote (from Terry Teachout’s About Last Night): “Bigotry does not mean believing that people who differ from you are wrong, it means assuming that they are either knaves or fools. To think them so is an immediate convenience, since it saves us the trouble of analyzing either their views or our own. ‘Christians …
Our Guns and Theirs..
Steve Sailer has two interesting columns here and here on the guns of both sides in Iraq. I find it interesting that a Marine in Iraq seems to agree with me rather than The Alpha Environmentalist on a long- running controversy over the M16 vs the Kalashnikov– mainly over reliability, but also over small rather …
Derb, Doom, and Gloom
Anyone familiar with this blog will know that (A) I am a big fan of the writing of John Derbyshire and that, (B) despite the general cheerfulness of this blog, I run a regular feature called “Doom and Gloom’. For the life of me, I can’t see why one cannot see that while we are …
MUST BLOG!
I am still awaiting DSL, still using my antique IMac with an incredibly slow modem (added on– this one also fried its own), a mimiscule keyboard that jumps and puts in multiple exclamation points–!!!–and no ability to access my photos or put in new ones. But an encounter with a fan — a writer we …
Security, as it is practiced
From the Arizona Daily Star via the Alpha Environmentalist. “On her way to a recent meeting at the Superior Court building Downtown, an Arizona Daily Star reporter put her purse on the conveyor belt to be scanned for potential weapons. “After staring at the monitor a good long time, the security guard asked if she …
For Dog Lovers
For all of us who think dogs superior to pigs or goats (a little in- joke– Patrick will understand) a quote from Matt, when we were talking about his old dog Meng. I said: “Loving dogs will break your heart– but how could we do anything else?’ And he replied: “There is nothing else to …
Condor Feeding Habits
This article from the NYT suggests that California Condors have changed their diet in the past (megafauna to beached sea mammals, then to beef) and maybe should change again. The hypothesis dovetails well with the theories of the grand old man of ReWilding, Paul Martin, in his book Twilight of the Mammoths. He notes that …
Three Martini Lunch!!
Roseann Hanson, who to his great good fortune is the wife of the Alpha Environmentalist, has decied to start her own blog, Three Martini Lunch. I want to quote at length from her absolutely delightful Credo, but for the moment I don’t seem to be able to cut and paste, and there is too much …
Of “Save” the Falcons: Big Lies
This meme probably should have been swatted long ago– in fact, I thought it had been– but it has reared its head in a new place. The political site Frontpage , in an unexceptionable (and as far as I know mostly correct) but heated article on Saudi money’s use in funding terrorism, cited the Arab’s …