Random snippet: Lamb

The following is a random little slice from Lamb by Christopher Moore. Why? Because it makes me smile I guess.
“Eek, a tiger,” Rumi said, as we stumbled into a small clearing, a mere depression really, where a cat the size of Jerusalem was gleefully gnawing away on the skull of a deer.
Rumi had expressed my [...]

A montage for the Israeli girls

Just some interesting tidbits to get you through recess today.

Israeli women with assault rifles buying some ice cream makes for a surreal image. It’s tough to wrap my mind around the differences in that society or to imagine growing up there.
Don’t forget to buy your Harry Potter books from a Canadian retailer such as [...]

Who’s the bigger terrorist?

Last night I was watching an interview with Al Gore. He was discussing why he wrote his new book, The Assault on Reason. Here’s the handy blurb about that:
We are at a pivotal moment in American democracy. The persistent and sustained reliance on falsehoods as the basis of policy, even in the face of [...]

300 foot club

My apologies for the absence of updates lately. I’m doing some business travel and not getting around to updating too often. Maybe I’ll compile some green reviews of the cities I visit or something. If I do, Orlando isn’t going to score highly.
Anyways, while I’m out and about I need someone to read Richard Preston’s [...]